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 Installing a Ceph cluster
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.. todo:: write me

Authentication is optional but very much recommended.

Basically, everything somebody needs to go through to build a new
cluster when not cheating via vstart or teuthology, but without
mentioning all the design tradeoffs and options like journaling
locations or filesystems

At this point, either use 1 or 3 mons, point to :doc:`grow/mon`

OSD installation
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btrfs
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what does btrfs give you (the journaling thing)


ext4/ext3
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.. _xattr:

Enabling extended attributes
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how to enable xattr on ext4/3