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FreeBSD Implementation details

Disk layout

Current implementation works on ZFS pools

• created in /var/lib/ceph

• One ZFS pool per OSD, like:

  gpart create -s GPT ada1
  gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l osd1 ada1
  zpool create -o mountpoint=/var/lib/ceph/osd/osd.1 osd
  

• Maybe add some cache and log (ZIL)? Assuming that ada2 is an SSD:

  gpart create -s GPT ada2
  gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l osd1-log -s 1G ada2
  zpool add osd1 log gpt/osd1-log
  gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l osd1-cache -s 10G ada2
  zpool add osd1 log gpt/osd1-cache
  

• Note: UFS2 does not allow large xattribs

Configuration

As per FreeBSD default parts of extra software go into /usr/local/. Which means that for /etc/ceph.conf the default location is /usr/local/etc/ceph/ceph.conf. Smartest thing to do is to create a softlink from /etc/ceph to /usr/local/etc/ceph:

ln -s /usr/local/etc/ceph /etc/ceph

A sample file is provided in /usr/local/share/doc/ceph/sample.ceph.conf

MON creation

Monitors are created by following the manual creation steps on:

http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/install/manual-deployment/

OSD creation

OSDs can be manually created only, see Adding OSDs