Advanced sort (sorting by columns)

Linux

I was familiar of the general sort command and its basic options like sort -r for reverse sort and sort -n for numerical sort, but I did not know about the powerful -k option that allows sort to be used for sorting by multiple columns

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Export CephFS with NFS Ganesha

Ceph

Install packages

Need to use backports to install the nfs-ganesha version that supports rados_* backends

echo deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian buster-backports main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
apt update
apt install nfs-ganesha/buster-backports nfs-ganesha-ceph/buster-backports nfs-ganesha-vfs/buster-backports

apt install nfs-ganesha nfs-ganesha-ceph nfs-ganesha-vfs

Find out which pools are available

root@pvetest2:~# rados lspools
device_health_metrics
gold
ec21pool
cephfs_meta
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Cephfs Clustered Share on Proxmox server

Linux

Assume that the AD server already exists and we create a clustered member

Install packages

apt install ctdb samba winbind krb5-config krb5-user libnss-winbind

Mount CephFS

First make sure that CephFS is mounted on the host.

ln -s /etc/pve/priv/ceph.client.admin.keyring /etc/ceph/ceph.client.admin.keyring
  • One-time mount of cephfs:
 mount -t ceph -o name=admin,noatime,nofail :/ /mnt/cephfs
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