Running Ceph with systemd
==========================
-For all distributions that support systemd (CentOS 7, Fedora, Debian Jessie
-8.x, SUSE), ceph daemons are now managed using native systemd files instead of
-the legacy sysvinit scripts. For example::
+For all distributions that support systemd (CentOS 7, Fedora, Debian
+Jessie 8 and later, SUSE), ceph daemons are now managed using native
+systemd files instead of the legacy sysvinit scripts. For example::
sudo systemctl start ceph.target # start all daemons
sudo systemctl status ceph-osd@12 # check status of osd.12
specific distributions aside from the kernel and system initialization
package (i.e., sysvinit, upstart, systemd).
+Luminous (12.2.z)
+-----------------
+
++----------+----------+--------------------+--------------+---------+------------+
+| Distro | Release | Code Name | Kernel | Notes | Testing |
++==========+==========+====================+==============+=========+============+
+| CentOS | 7 | N/A | linux-3.10.0 | 3 | B, I, C |
++----------+----------+--------------------+--------------+---------+------------+
+| Debian | 8.0 | Jessie | linux-3.16.0 | 1, 2 | B, I |
++----------+----------+--------------------+--------------+---------+------------+
+| Debian | 9.0 | Stretch | linux-4.9 | 1, 2 | B, I |
++----------+----------+--------------------+--------------+---------+------------+
+| Fedora | 22 | N/A | linux-3.14.0 | | B, I |
++----------+----------+--------------------+--------------+---------+------------+
+| RHEL | 7 | Maipo | linux-3.10.0 | | B, I |
++----------+----------+--------------------+--------------+---------+------------+
+| Ubuntu | 14.04 | Trusty Tahr | linux-3.13.0 | | B, I, C |
++----------+----------+--------------------+--------------+---------+------------+
+| Ubuntu | 16.04 | Xenial Xerus | linux-4.4.0 | 3 | B, I, C |
++----------+----------+--------------------+--------------+---------+------------+
+
+
Infernalis (9.2.z) and Jewel (10.2.z)
-------------------------------------
+----------+----------+--------------------+--------------+---------+------------+
| Distro | Release | Code Name | Kernel | Notes | Testing |
+==========+==========+====================+==============+=========+============+
-| CentOS | 7 | N/A | linux-3.10.0 | | B, I, C |
+| CentOS | 7 | N/A | linux-3.10.0 | 3 | B, I, C |
+----------+----------+--------------------+--------------+---------+------------+
| Debian | 8.0 | Jessie | linux-3.16.0 | 1, 2 | B, I |
+----------+----------+--------------------+--------------+---------+------------+
for kernel client (kernel RBD or the Ceph file system). Upgrade to a
recommended kernel.
+- **3**: The default kernel regularly fails in QA when the ``btrfs``
+ file system is used. We do not recommend using ``btrfs`` for backing Ceph OSDs.
+
Testing
-------