RE: [Xen-devel] Xen blktap driver for Ceph RBD : Anybody wants to test ? :p

From: James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>
To: Sylvain Munaut <s.munaut@whatever-company.com>
Cc: "ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Xen blktap driver for Ceph RBD : Anybody wants to test ? :p
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:05:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6035A0D088A63A46850C3988ED045A4B66BB564A@BITCOM1.int.sbss.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF6-1L7UXXNRsyarZw+EcRjdPtnXAuULSZDGtDDB3Oy3O79KMQ@mail.gmail.com>

Sylvain,

Are you still working on this in any way?

It's been working great for me but seems to use an excessive amount of memory, like 300MB per process. Is that expected?

Thanks

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:ceph-devel-
> owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Sylvain Munaut
> Sent: Saturday, 20 April 2013 12:41 AM
> To: Pasi Kärkkäinen
> Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org; xen-devel@lists.xen.org
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Xen blktap driver for Ceph RBD : Anybody wants to
> test ? :p
> 
> > If you have time to write up some lines about steps required to test this,
> > that'd be nice, it'll help people to test this stuff.
> 
> To quickly test, I compiled the package and just replaced the tapdisk
> binary from my "normal" blktap install with the newly compiled one.
> 
> Then you need to setup a RBD image named 'test' in the default 'rbd'
> pool. You also need to setup a proper ceph.conf and keyring file on
> the client (since librbd will use those for the parameters). The
> keyring must contain the 'client.admin' key
> 
> Then in the config file, use something like
> "tap2:tapdisk:rbd:xxx,xvda1,w"  the 'xxx' part is currently ignored
> ...
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>     Sylvain
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html