Hi, As Jantje said, it seems you are not running as root. But I do have some recommendations for your config: On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 06:14 +0000, Atish Kathpal wrote: > [global] > auth supported = cephx > keyring = /etc/ceph/ceph.keyring > > [mon] > mon data = /ceph_data/mon.0 > This section is globally, so if you'd add more monitors, they would all get /ceph_data/mon.0 as data dir. I'd do: [mon] mon data = /ceph_data/mon.$id > [mds] > > [osd] > osd data = /ceph_data/osd.0 > osd journal = /ceph_data/osd.0.journal > osd journal size = 1000 Same goes here for your OSD, do: osd data = /ceph_data/osd.$id osd journal = /ceph_data/osd.$id.journal > > [mon.0] > host = atish-virtual-machine > mon addr = 10.72.147.207:6789 Monitors should not be named "0", "1", etc, but more like: * mon.alpha * mon.beta * mon.charlie > > [osd.0] > host = atish-virtual-machine > > [mds.0] > host = atish-virtual-machine And you have only one OSD, is that correct? Wido -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html