[PATCH v2 2/2] Documentation: Document the cephroot functionality

2014-01-15 Thread mark . doffman
From: Rob Taylor Document using the cephfs as a root device, its purpose, functionality and use. Signed-off-by: Mark Doffman Signed-off-by: Rob Taylor Reviewed-by: Ian Molton --- Documentation/filesystems/{ => ceph}/ceph.txt | 0 Documentation/filesystems/ceph/cephroot.txt |

[PATCH v2 1/2] init: Add a new root device option, the Ceph file system

2014-01-15 Thread mark . doffman
From: Mark Doffman Analogous to NFS add a new root device option, the ability to boot using the Ceph networked file system as the root fs. This patch adds a new root device option '/dev/ceph' that uses a ceph networked file system. File system parameters are passed using a new kernel

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Documentation: Document the cephroot functionality

2014-01-15 Thread Mark Doffman
Hi Sage, On 12/06/2013 11:57 PM, Sage Weil wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, mark.doff...@codethink.co.uk wrote: From: Rob Taylor Document using the cephfs as a root device, its purpose, functionality and use. Signed-off-by: Mark Doffman Signed-off-by: Rob Taylor Reviewed-by: Ian Molton

[PATCH v2 0/2] Add ceph root filesystem functionality and documentation.

2014-01-15 Thread mark . doffman
From: Mark Doffman Hi All, The following is a second version of a patch series that adds the ability to use a ceph distributed file system as the root device. Changes from version 1 fs/ceph/root.c: The parsing code that takes the DHCP option 17 and kernel command line parameters has been

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Add ceph root filesystem functionality and documentation.

2013-11-22 Thread Mark Doffman
On 11/21/2013 02:19 PM, David Dillow wrote: On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 20:13 -0600, mark.doff...@codethink.co.uk wrote: The following patch series adds the ability to use a ceph distributed file system as the root device. The functionality is similar to NFS root but for the ceph filesystem. Why do

[PATCH 2/4] Documentation: Document the cephroot functionality

2013-11-20 Thread mark . doffman
From: Rob Taylor Document using the cephfs as a root device, its purpose, functionality and use. Signed-off-by: Mark Doffman Signed-off-by: Rob Taylor Reviewed-by: Ian Molton --- Documentation/filesystems/{ => ceph}/ceph.txt | 0 Documentation/filesystems/ceph/cephroot.txt |

[PATCH 4/4] Reuse root_nfs_parse_addr() for NFS and CEPH

2013-11-20 Thread mark . doffman
From: Mark Doffman Rename function root_nfs_parse_addr to root_parse_server_addr to reflect its use in parsing an address for both NFS and CEPH root. Signed-off-by: Mark Doffman Reviewed-by: Ian Molton --- fs/ceph/root.c | 6 +++--- fs/nfs/nfsroot.c | 4 ++-- include/linux

[PATCH 3/4] cephroot: Add DHCP option 17 configuration to ceph root fs.

2013-11-20 Thread mark . doffman
From: Mark Doffman When not configured via kernel parameters add to cephroot the ability to configure server address, path and options from DHCP option 17. Signed-off-by: Mark Doffman Reviewed-by: Ian Molton --- Documentation/filesystems/ceph/cephroot.txt | 4 fs/ceph/root.c

[PATCH 1/4] init: Add a new root device option, the Ceph file system

2013-11-20 Thread mark . doffman
From: Mark Doffman Analogous to NFS add a new root device option, the ability to boot using the Ceph networked file system as the root fs. This patch adds a new root device option '/dev/ceph' that uses a ceph networked file system. File system parameters are passed using a new kernel

[PATCH 0/4] Add ceph root filesystem functionality and documentation.

2013-11-20 Thread mark . doffman
From: Mark Doffman Hi All, The following patch series adds the ability to use a ceph distributed file system as the root device. The functionality is similar to NFS root but for the ceph filesystem. The patch series adds a new root device option '/dev/ceph'. Configuration is passed