Why cephx rather then kerberos?

2012-12-09 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, the docs continuously describe cephx as Kerberos-like, curious why Kereros isn't used instead. Developing new security protocols is almost always a bad idea from a security perspective. I haven't looked deeply into cephx to see how much is novel (and likely to contain novel bugs) ans

reconfiguring existing hardware for ceph use

2012-10-25 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, I have 8 servers available to test ceph on which are a bit over powered/under-disked and I'm trying to develop a plan for how to lay out services and how to populate the available disk slots. The hardware is dual socket Intel E5640 chips (8 core total/ node) with 48G RAM, dual 10G

Ideal hardware spec?

2012-08-22 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, Yes I'm asking the impossible question, what is the best hardware confing. I'm looking at (possibly) using ceph as backing store for images and volumes on OpenStack as well as exposing at least the object store for direct use. The openstack cluster exists and is currently in the early

getting started with RADOSGW

2012-07-22 Thread Jonathan Proulx
Hi All, I've created a testuser with testuser:swift subuser, setup apache with fcgi but client access with either S3 or Swift clients result in HTTP 500 errors on the server: [Sun Jul 22 10:14:33 2012] [error] [client 128.52.x.x] (2)No such file or directory: FastCGI: failed to connect to server

Re: getting started with RADOSGW

2012-07-22 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Yehuda Sadeh yeh...@inktank.com wrote: I think you've set up your apache to use external fastcgi, but you have to run radosgw manually using this method. Spot on, thanks for the quick response. By radosgw init script was quietly exiting because I was using

Re: getting started with RADOSGW

2012-07-22 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Yehuda Sadeh yeh...@inktank.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Jonathan Proulx j...@jonproulx.com wrote: are these the right capabilities for that user (http://ceph.com/docs/master/radosgw/config suggests they are)? client.rados.gateway key