Boot system from Ceph RADOS Block Device
an idea by dmdiss
Updated over 6 years ago. 3 hacker ♥️. Has no hacker: grab it!

Write a new Dracut module which adds support for booting a system where the root filesystem resides on a remote RBD image.

  • Pack keyring and ceph.conf (monitor address) in the initramfs image
  • Map the RBD image on boot
  • Fully test and submit the changes for upstream Dracut inclusion

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