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diff --git a/README.FreeBSD b/README.FreeBSD new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a3193f7d --- /dev/null +++ b/README.FreeBSD @@ -0,0 +1,162 @@ + +Last updated: 2017-04-08 + +The FreeBSD build will build most of the tools in Ceph. +Note that the (kernel) RBD dependent items will not work + +I started looking into Ceph, because the HAST solution with CARP and +ggate did not really do what I was looking for. But I'm aiming for +running a Ceph storage cluster on storage nodes that are running ZFS. +In the end the cluster would be running bhyve on RBD disk that are stored in +Ceph. + +The FreeBSD build will build most of the tools in Ceph. + +Progress from last report: +========================== + +Most important change: + - A port is submitted: net/ceph-devel. + +Other improvements: + + * A new ceph-devel update will be submitted in April + + - Ceph-Fuse works, allowing to mount a CephFS on a FreeBSD system and do + some work on it. + - Ceph-disk prepare and activate work for FileStore on ZFS, allowing + easy creation of OSDs. + - RBD is actually buildable and can be used to manage RADOS BLOCK + DEVICEs. + - Most of the awkward dependencies on Linux-isms are deleted only + /bin/bash is there to stay. + +Getting the FreeBSD work on Ceph: +================================= + + pkg install net/ceph-devel + +Or: + cd "place to work on this" + git clone https://github.com/wjwithagen/ceph.git + cd ceph + git checkout wip.FreeBSD + +Building Ceph +============= + - Go and start building + ./do_freebsd.sh + +Parts not (yet) included: +========================= + + - KRBD + Kernel Rados Block Devices is implemented in the Linux kernel + And perhaps ggated could be used as a template since it does some of + the same, other than just between 2 disks. And it has a userspace + counterpart. + - BlueStore. + FreeBSD and Linux have different AIO API, and that needs to be made + compatible Next to that is there discussion in FreeBSD about + aio_cancel not working for all devicetypes + - CephFS as native filesystem + (Ceph-fuse does work.) + Cython tries to access an internal field in dirent which does not + compile +Build Prerequisites +=================== + + Compiling and building Ceph is tested on 12-CURRENT, but I guess/expect + 11-RELEASE will also work. And Clang is at 3.8.0. + It uses the CLANG toolset that is available, 3.7 is no longer tested, + but was working when that was with 11-CURRENT. + Clang 3.4 (on 10.2-STABLE) does not have all required capabilities to + compile everything + +The following setup will get things running for FreeBSD: + + This all require root privilidges. + + - Install bash and link it in /bin + sudo pkg install bash + sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/bash + +Getting the FreeBSD work on Ceph: +================================= + + - cd "place to work on this" + git clone https://github.com/wjwithagen/ceph.git + cd ceph + git checkout wip.FreeBSD.201702 + +Building Ceph +============= + - Go and start building + ./do_freebsd.sh + +Parts not (yet) included: +========================= + + - KRBD + Kernel Rados Block Devices is implemented in the Linux kernel + It seems that there used to be a userspace implementation first. + And perhaps ggated could be used as a template since it does some of + the same, other than just between 2 disks. And it has a userspace + counterpart. + - BlueStore. + FreeBSD and Linux have different AIO API, and that needs to be made + compatible Next to that is there discussion in FreeBSD about + aio_cancel not working for all devicetypes + - CephFS + Cython tries to access an internal field in dirent which does not + compile + +Tests that verify the correct working of the above are also excluded +from the testset + +Tests not (yet) include: +======================= + + - None, although some test can fail if running tests in parallel and there is + not enough swap. Then tests will start to fail in strange ways. + +Task to do: +=========== + - Build an automated test platform that will build ceph/master on + FreeBSD and report the results back to the Ceph developers. This will + increase the maintainability of the FreeBSD side of things. + Developers are signalled that they are using Linux-isms that will not + compile/run on FreeBSD Ceph has several projects for this: Jenkins, + teuthology, pulpito, ... + But even just a while { compile } loop and report the build data on a + static webpage would do for starters. + + - Run integration tests to see if the FreeBSD daemons will work with a + Linux Ceph platform. + + - Compile and test the user space RBD (Rados Block Device). + + - Investigate and see if an in-kernel RBD device could be developed a la + 'ggate' + + - Investigate the keystore, which could be kernel embedded on Linux an + currently prevents building Cephfs and some other parts. + + - Scheduler information is not used atm, because the schedulers work + rather different. But at a certain point in time, this would need some + attention: + in: ./src/common/Thread.cc + + - Improve the FreeBSD /etc/rc.d initscripts in the Ceph stack. Both + for testing, but mainly for running Ceph on production machines. + Work on ceph-disk and ceph-deploy to make it more FreeBSD and ZFS + compatible. + + - Build test-cluster and start running some of the teuthology integration + tests on these. + Teuthology want to build its own libvirt and that does not quite work + with all the packages FreeBSD already has in place. Lots of minute + details to figure out + + - Design a virtual disk implementation that can be used with behyve and + attached to an RBD image. |