Got CEPH up and running today.

Finished installing two 500GB hard drives in tiger2.

Used a ceph.conf file partially based on this one: http://ceph.newdream.net/wiki/Installing_on_Debian

Those instructions were also very useful in setting everything up.

I also downloaded linux kernel 2.6.8 source, compiled it, and installed it on tiger1. You have to do this in order to get the CEPH module so you can mount ceph.

Started by installing two 500gb hard drives into tiger1.

Following instructions on http://www.ece.umd.edu/~posulliv/ceph/cluster_build.html

Downloaded the source code for ceph and exported it over nfs so that the other computers will be able to use the same code.

Working on compiling kernel so I can enable CEPH in the kernel. Using instructions here: https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B_nTbpzPbbNJOTljYjVhNTQtOTgwYi00NTI4LThlOWEtZTFiOGEyOTE5MWIy to help with compiling the kernel.

Note: I'm installing kernel 2.6.30 because for apt couldn't download the source for 2.6.32

Nevermind. Found instructions at