Re: [ceph-users] OSD in ceph.conf

2015-05-12 Thread Georgios Dimitrakakis
Robert, thanks a lot for the feedback! I was very worried about the same thing! Glad to know tha Ceph's automagic takes care of everything :-P Best regards, George If you use ceph-disk (and I believe ceph-depoly) to create your OSDs, or you go through the manual steps to set up the

Re: [ceph-users] OSD in ceph.conf

2015-05-11 Thread Georgios Dimitrakakis
Hi Robert, just to make sure I got it correctly: Do you mean that the /etc/mtab entries are completely ignored and no matter what the order of the /dev/sdX device is Ceph will just mount correctly the osd/ceph-X by default? In addition, assuming that an OSD node fails for a reason other

Re: [ceph-users] OSD in ceph.conf

2015-05-11 Thread Robert LeBlanc
If you use ceph-disk (and I believe ceph-depoly) to create your OSDs, or you go through the manual steps to set up the partition UUIDs, then yes udev and the init script will do all the magic. Your disks can be moved to another box without problems. I've moved disks to different ports on

Re: [ceph-users] OSD in ceph.conf

2015-05-07 Thread Robert LeBlanc
I have not used ceph-deploy, but it should use ceph-disk for the OSD preparation. Ceph-disk creates GPT partitions with specific partition UUIDS for data and journals. When udev or init starts the OSD, or mounts it to a temp location reads the whoami file and the journal, then remounts it in the

Re: [ceph-users] OSD in ceph.conf

2015-05-07 Thread Georgios Dimitrakakis
Indeed it is not necessary to have any OSD entries in the Ceph.conf file but what happens in the event of a disk failure resulting in changing the mount device? For what I can see is that OSDs are mounted from entries in /etc/mtab (I am on CentOS 6.6) like this: /dev/sdj1

[ceph-users] OSD in ceph.conf

2015-05-06 Thread Florent MONTHEL
Hi teqm, Is it necessary to indicate in ceph.conf all OSD that we have in the cluster ? we have today reboot a cluster (5 nodes RHEL 6.5) and some OSD seem to have change ID so crush map not mapped with the reality Thanks *Florent Monthel* ___