SuSE stops building Ceph packages for its distributions
Hi, SuSE will not build even the Ceph client packages for its distributions any more: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/packaging@lists.opensuse.org/thread... https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/15-SP6/index.html#jsc-PED... This means that this distribution cannot consume Ceph storage any more, if no other party will build these packages. If you are using SuSE Linux Enterprise Server or OpenSuSE as a client for Ceph storage you need to plan for this. Regards -- Robert Sander Linux Consultant Heinlein Consulting GmbH Schwedter Str. 8/9b, 10119 Berlin https://www.heinlein-support.de Tel: +49 30 405051 - 0 Fax: +49 30 405051 - 19 Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg - HRB 220009 B Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein - Sitz: Berlin
On 5/7/25 17:52, Robert Sander wrote:
Hi,
SuSE will not build even the Ceph client packages for its distributions any more:
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/packaging@lists.opensuse.org/ thread/HF3OTX5G74PS7KVDVFIMOZSTQRKOPB62/ https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/15-SP6/ index.html#jsc-PED-6808
This means that this distribution cannot consume Ceph storage any more, if no other party will build these packages.
If you are using SuSE Linux Enterprise Server or OpenSuSE as a client for Ceph storage you need to plan for this.
Please see: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/packaging@lists.opensuse.org/thread... TL;DR: James Oakely has taken over ceph package maintenance on openSUSE, and is currently working on getting Reef into openSUSE Tumbleweed. Regards, Tim -- Tim Serong Senior Clustering Engineer SUSE tserong@suse.com
Hi, Am 6/26/25 um 01:22 schrieb Tim Serong:
On 5/7/25 17:52, Robert Sander wrote:
Hi,
SuSE will not build even the Ceph client packages for its distributions any more:
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/packaging@lists.opensuse.org/ thread/HF3OTX5G74PS7KVDVFIMOZSTQRKOPB62/ https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/15-SP6/ index.html#jsc-PED-6808
This means that this distribution cannot consume Ceph storage any more, if no other party will build these packages.
If you are using SuSE Linux Enterprise Server or OpenSuSE as a client for Ceph storage you need to plan for this.
Please see:
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/packaging@lists.opensuse.org/ thread/HF3OTX5G74PS7KVDVFIMOZSTQRKOPB62/#UJNXBIWH4XZY443F23NXKAQFDZC32ZO3
TL;DR: James Oakely has taken over ceph package maintenance on openSUSE, and is currently working on getting Reef into openSUSE Tumbleweed.
I just learned that SuSE even removed the Ceph kernel modules from their enterprise kernel package in 15.7. This means you cannot mount CephFS or map an RBD when using SuSE Linux Enterprise Server any more. Regards -- Robert Sander Linux Consultant Heinlein Consulting GmbH Schwedter Str. 8/9b, 10119 Berlin https://www.heinlein-support.de Tel: +49 30 405051 - 0 Fax: +49 30 405051 - 19 Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg - HRB 220009 B Geschäftsführer: Peer Heinlein - Sitz: Berlin
On Friday, August 15, 2025 6:20:44 a.m. Atlantic Daylight Time Robert Sander wrote:
I just learned that SuSE even removed the Ceph kernel modules from their enterprise kernel package in 15.7. This means you cannot mount CephFS or map an RBD when using SuSE Linux Enterprise Server any more.
That would be news to me. I got Reef into SLFO which is the base for SLE and Leap: https://code.opensuse.org/leap/features/issue/219 I would have submitted Squid, which I have in a dev project, but Pacific can't be upgraded directly to Squid so we need at least one intermediate release. -- James Oakley jfunk@funktronics.ca
On 15/08/2025 12:20, Robert Sander wrote:
I just learned that SuSE even removed the Ceph kernel modules from their enterprise kernel package in 15.7. This means you cannot mount CephFS or map an RBD when using SuSE Linux Enterprise Server any more.
The kernel rbd and cephfs are in upstream kernel, they were not removed in SUSE kernel, SLE 16.0 public release candidate (based on 6.12) has all upstream modules. Ofcourse if they do indeed stop the user space rbd client package then mapping/un-mapping images will not be straightforward. You maybe referring to the iSCSI rbd kernel module developed by SUSE, and this has been dropped in their kernel. We at PetaSAN actively maintain this module as it gives good performance, if anyone relies on this module, they can use our patched kernel. /maged
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