As a general rule, we recommend deploying Ceph on newer releases of Linux.
-Linux kernel
-~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Linux Kernel
+------------
- **Ceph Kernel Client:** We recommend Linux kernel v3.6 or later.
a recent Linux kernel (v3.5 or later).
glibc
-~~~~~
+-----
- **syncfs(2)**: For non-btrfs filesystems such as XFS and ext4 where
more than one ``ceph-osd`` daemon is used on a single server, Ceph
package (i.e., sysvinit, upstart, systemd).
Argonaut (0.48)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+---------------
+----------+----------+--------------------+--------------+---------+------------+
| Distro | Release | Code Name | Kernel | Notes | Testing |
+----------+----------+--------------------+--------------+---------+------------+
Bobtail (0.55)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+--------------
+----------+----------+--------------------+--------------+---------+------------+
| Distro | Release | Code Name | Kernel | Notes | Testing |
Notes
-~~~~~
+-----
- **1**: The default kernel has an older version of ``btrfs`` that we do not
recommend for ``ceph-osd`` storage nodes. Upgrade to a recommended
they could.
Testing
-~~~~~~~
+-------
- **B**: We continuously build all branches on this platform and exercise basic
unit tests. We build release packages for this platform.