Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] doc: document new CephFS mount device syntax

[Venky Shankar <vshankar@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 11:38 PM Patrick Donnelly <pdonnell@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 11:48 PM Venky Shankar <vshankar@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Venky Shankar <vshankar@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/filesystems/ceph.rst | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.rst
> > index 7d2ef4e27273..830ea8969d9d 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ceph.rst
> > @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Mount Syntax
> >
> >  The basic mount syntax is::
> >
> > - # mount -t ceph monip[:port][,monip2[:port]...]:/[subdir] mnt
> > + # mount -t ceph user@fsid.fs_name=/[subdir] mnt -o mon_addr=monip1[:port][/monip2[:port]]
>
> Somewhat unrelated question to this patchset: can you specify the mons
> in the ceph.conf format? i.e. with v2/v1 syntax?

The problem with that is the delimiter used is comma (",") which
restricts passing it through the mount option.

>
> >  You only need to specify a single monitor, as the client will get the
> >  full list when it connects.  (However, if the monitor you specify
> > @@ -90,16 +90,35 @@ happens to be down, the mount won't succeed.)  The port can be left
> >  off if the monitor is using the default.  So if the monitor is at
> >  1.2.3.4::
> >
> > - # mount -t ceph 1.2.3.4:/ /mnt/ceph
> > + # mount -t ceph cephuser@07fe3187-00d9-42a3-814b-72a4d5e7d5be.cephfs=/ /mnt/ceph -o mon_addr=1.2.3.4
> >
> >  is sufficient.  If /sbin/mount.ceph is installed, a hostname can be
> > -used instead of an IP address.
> > +used instead of an IP address and the cluster FSID can be left out
> > +(as the mount helper will fill it in by reading the ceph configuration
> > +file)::
> >
> > +  # mount -t ceph cephuser@cephfs=/ /mnt/ceph -o mon_addr=mon-addr
> >
> > +Multiple monitor addresses can be passed by separating each address with a slash (`/`)::
> > +
> > +  # mount -t ceph cephuser@cephfs=/ /mnt/ceph -o mon_addr=192.168.1.100/192.168.1.101
> > +
> > +When using the mount helper, monitor address can be read from ceph
> > +configuration file if available. Note that, the cluster FSID (passed as part
> > +of the device string) is validated by checking it with the FSID reported by
> > +the monitor.
> >
> >  Mount Options
> >  =============
> >
> > +  mon_addr=ip_address[:port][/ip_address[:port]]
> > +       Monitor address to the cluster. This is used to bootstrap the
> > +        connection to the cluster. Once connection is established, the
> > +        monitor addresses in the monitor map are followed.
> > +
> > +  fsid=cluster-id
> > +       FSID of the cluster
>
> Let's note it's the output of `ceph fsid`.
>
> >    ip=A.B.C.D[:N]
> >         Specify the IP and/or port the client should bind to locally.
> >         There is normally not much reason to do this.  If the IP is not
> > --
> > 2.27.0
> >
>
>
> --
> Patrick Donnelly, Ph.D.
> He / Him / His
> Principal Software Engineer
> Red Hat Sunnyvale, CA
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>


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Cheers,
Venky