[pve-devel] Ceph Pacific testing?

[Victor Hooi]

Hi Thomas!

Do you know if there's been any update on Ceph Pacific in Proxmox? Are we
anywhere near having testing packages to try out? =)

Thanks,
Victor

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 5:29 PM Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht at proxmox.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 18.04.21 00:48, Victor Hooi wrote:
> > Awesome! Really excited by this!
> >
> > Do we have any indication of when this year the PVE 7.0 testing will
> begin?
>
> No, nothing definitive yet, if I had to guess, I'd say that the test repo
> would get available in Q2 rather than Q3, though.
>
> > Also - will it still be based on a Ubuntu kernel? Or any chance we can
> get
> > a newer kernel from Debian? =)
>
> Debian 11 Bullseye will ship the 5.10 kernel, Ubuntu 21.04 will ship the
> 5.11 kernel.
>
> We will use the newer one from Ubuntu, and actually, that one is already
> available for testing in Proxmox VE 6 since almost a month[0].
>
> Note, while we did not see any issue anywhere, we still recommend to stay
> on 5.4, which
> will stay the default kernel for the remaining PVE 6.x lifetime.
>
> With above note in mind, you can install it by executing:
>
> apt update
> apt install pve-kernel-5.11
>
> cheers,
> Thomas
>
> [0]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/kernel-5-11.86225/
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Victor
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 8:44 PM Thomas Lamprecht <
> t.lamprecht at proxmox.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 14.04.21 22:05, Victor Hooi wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Ceph Pacific was recently announced:
> >>>
> >>> https://ceph.io/releases/v16-2-0-pacific-released/
> >>>
> >>> Do you know if anybody has started testing this for Proxmox yet?
> >>>
> >>> Or are there alpha/beta packages we could run in a test lab?
> >>
> >> FYI: We plan to build and release this for upcoming PVE 7.0 this year,
> >> based on
> >> Debian bullseye.
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >> Thomas
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>