Re: [ceph-users] Minimum requirements for ceph monitors?

2013-11-28 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
Most of my OSD nodes are equipped with low voltage xeon (L5420) processors what is probably somewhat of an overkill. For that reason I run them with other services as well. However the board you are suggesting could be the answer for less power consumption on the OSD nodes. That still leaves me

[ceph-users] Minimum requirements for ceph monitors?

2013-11-27 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
Dear Ceph-users, I was wondering if I could use a raspberry PI exclusively for ceph mons only. Well, it doesn't have to be a raspberry pi of course, but some cheap, no fan, Athlon like server with 100Mps Ethernet connection in a 10 node 4Gb NIC per server ceph cluster. Just a thought. What are

Re: [ceph-users] Some help needed with ceph deployment

2013-08-28 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
Well, no. Thank you! :) Lots of hard work went in this product and we are all just using it for free. Thank you really!... ok here it is: { "devices": [ { "id": 0, "name": "osd.0"}, { "id": 1, "name": "osd.1"}, { "id": 2, "name": "osd.2"},

Re: [ceph-users] Some help needed with ceph deployment

2013-08-27 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
Hi, It seems that all my pgs are stuck somewhat. I'm not sure what to do from here. I waited a day in the hope that ceph would find a way to deal with this... but nothing happened. I'm testing on a single ubuntu server 13.04 with dumpling 0.67.2. Below is my ceph status. root@cephnode2:/root#

Re: [ceph-users] Storage, File Systems and Data Scrubbing

2013-08-27 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
: Johannes Klarenbeek; ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Onderwerp: Re: [ceph-users] Storage, File Systems and Data Scrubbing ceph-osd builds a transactional interface on top of the usual posix operations so that we can do things like atomically perform an object write and update the osd metadata. The current

Re: [ceph-users] Some help needed with ceph deployment

2013-08-26 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Johannes Klarenbeek mailto:johannes.klarenb...@rigo.nl>> wrote: Hello ceph-users, I'm trying to set up a linux cluster but it takes me a little longer then I hoped for. There are some things that I do not quite understand yet. Hopefully some of y

[ceph-users] Some help needed with ceph deployment

2013-08-26 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
Hello ceph-users, I'm trying to set up a linux cluster but it takes me a little longer then I hoped for. There are some things that I do not quite understand yet. Hopefully some of you can help me out. 1) When using ceph-deploy, a ceph.conf file is created in the current directory and in

Re: [ceph-users] ceph-deploy mon create error: cannot load config 'ceph.conf'

2013-08-25 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
Sorry to have bothered you all with my previous question, because I have found it myself. I first uninstalled ceph-deploy with "apt-get purge ceph-deploy" and then reinstalled it again. I also noticed that when creating the first cluster with "ceph-deploy install mynode" the ceph.conf file is

Re: [ceph-users] ceph-deploy mon create error: cannot load config 'ceph.conf'

2013-08-25 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
Oeps, when creating the cluster I did: Ceph-deploy -cluster mycluster new mynode Van: Johannes Klarenbeek Verzonden: zondag 25 augustus 2013 16:00 Aan: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Onderwerp: ceph-deploy mon create error: cannot load config 'ceph.conf' Hey, After some test deployments,

[ceph-users] ceph-deploy mon create error: cannot load config 'ceph.conf'

2013-08-25 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
Hey, After some test deployments, I removed the whole ceph configuration Ceph-deploy purge mynode Rebooted my machine, but when I create a new cluster like so Ceph-deploy install mynode Ceph-deploy --cluster new mynode I have a new error when I execute Ceph-deploy mon create mynode [ceph_dep

[ceph-users] howto prepare exclusive partition for a monitor and OSD

2013-08-25 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
Dear ceph-users, I'm trying to get the ceph monitor use a exclusive partition on my ssd drive. However, how should I prepare it? I want to do something like this: Ceph-deploy mon create mynode --mon-data /dev/sda5 Or Ceph-deploy mon create mynode:/dev/sda5 /dev/sda5 is a 16GB partition on a 1

Re: [ceph-users] Storage, File Systems and Data Scrubbing

2013-08-21 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
a mechanism to detect these types of corruptions even in a 2 OSD setup by means of checksums (or better, with a hashed checksum id). Also, aren't there 2 types of transactions; one for writing and one for replicating? On Aug 21, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Johannes Klarenbeek mailto:johannes.klar

[ceph-users] Storage, File Systems and Data Scrubbing

2013-08-21 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
Dear ceph-users, I read a lot of documentation today about ceph architecture and linux file system benchmarks in particular and I could not help notice something that I like to clear up for myself. Take into account that it has been a while that I actually touched linux, but I did some programm

Re: [ceph-users] some newbie questions...

2013-08-20 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
Van: Wolfgang Hennerbichler [mailto:wo...@wogri.com] Verzonden: dinsdag 20 augustus 2013 10:51 Aan: Johannes Klarenbeek CC: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Onderwerp: Re: [ceph-users] some newbie questions... On Aug 20, 2013, at 09:54 , Johannes Klarenbeek mailto:johannes.klarenb...@rigo.nl>>

Re: [ceph-users] Request preinstalled Virtual Machines Images for cloning.

2013-08-20 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
On 08/19/2013 03:42 PM, Johannes Klarenbeek wrote: > Dear Ceph Developers and Users, > > I was wondering if there is any download location for preinstalled > virtual machine images with the latest release of ceph. Preferably 4 > different images with Ceph-OSD, Ceph-Mon, Ceph-MDS a

[ceph-users] some newbie questions...

2013-08-20 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
dear ceph-users, although heavily active in the past, i didn't touch linux for years, so I'm pretty new to ceph and i have a few questions, which i hope someone could answer for me. 1) i read somewhere that it is recommended to have one OSD per disk in a production environment. is this also

[ceph-users] Request preinstalled Virtual Machines Images for cloning.

2013-08-19 Thread Johannes Klarenbeek
Dear Ceph Developers and Users, I was wondering if there is any download location for preinstalled virtual machine images with the latest release of ceph. Preferably 4 different images with Ceph-OSD, Ceph-Mon, Ceph-MDS and last but not least a Ceph-Client with iscsi target server installed. But