This isn't a topic I know a ton about, but:
It is not possible to boot from CephFS, but will be soon (search for
[PATCH 1/4] init: Add a new root device option, the Ceph file
system).
I think it is possible to boot from rbd (there is native kernel
support for it as a block device, for starters),
On 28/01/14 13:37, Schlacta, Christ wrote:
Has anyone done the work to boot a machine (physical or virtual) from a
CEPH filesystem or RBD?
Booting a VM from RBD is doable in modern QEMU.
The QEMU process connects to RBD and presents it to the VM as a standard
block device, the VM doesn't know
I'll have to look at the iscsi and zfs initramfs hooks, and see if I can
model it most concisely on what they currently do. Between the two, I
should be able to hack something up.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Stuart Longland stua...@vrt.com.au wrote:
On 28/01/14 15:29, Schlacta, Christ
