Thanks Greg,
I am starting to understand it better.
I soon realized as well after doing some searching I hit this bug.
http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/5194
Which created the problem upon rebooting.

Thank You,
Scottix


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Gregory Farnum <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Scottix <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > That makes sense it affects the ceph cluster map, but it actually does a
> > little more like partitioning drives and setting up other parameters and
> > even starts the service. So the part I see is a little confusing is that
> I
> > have to configure the ceph.conf file on top of using ceph-deploy so it
> > starts to feel like double work and potential for error if you get mixed
> up
> > or you were expecting one thing and ceph-deploy does another.
> > I think I can figure out a best practice, but I think it is worth noting
> > that just running the commands will get it up and running but it is
> probably
> > best to edit the config file as well. I like the new ceph-deploy commands
> > definitely makes things more manageable.
> > A single page example for install and setup would be highly appreciated,
> > especially for new users.
> >
> > I must have skimmed that section in the runtime-changes thanks for
> pointing
> > me to the page.
>
> Just as a little more context, ceph-deploy is trying to provide a
> reference for how we expect users to manage ceph when using a
> configuration management system like Chef. Rather than trying to
> maintain a canonical ceph.conf (because let's be clear, there is no
> canonical one as far as Ceph is concerned), each host gets the
> information it needs in its ceph.conf, and the cluster is put together
> dynamically based on who's talking to the monitors.
> The reason you aren't seeing individual OSD entries in any of the
> configuration files is because the OSDs on a host are actually defined
> by the presence of OSD stores in /var/lib/ceph/osd-*. Those daemons
> should be activated automatically thanks to the magic of udev and our
> init scripts whenever you reboot, plug in a drive which stores an OSD,
> etc.
> -Greg
> Software Engineer #42 @ http://inktank.com | http://ceph.com
>



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