On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Wido den Hollander wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to connect to a small Ceph setup on my desktop without cephx and that
> failed:
>
> root@stack01:~# ceph -m wido-desktop.widodh.nl:6789 -s
> global_init: unable to open config file.
> root@stack01:~#
>
> I however worked with:
>
> root@stack01:~# ceph -m wido-desktop.widodh.nl:6789 -c /dev/null -s
> 2012-04-26 14:55:33.828524 pg v148: 594 pgs: 594 active+clean; 0 bytes
> data, 7740 KB used, 70571 MB / 76800 MB avail
> 2012-04-26 14:55:33.829622 mds e1: 0/0/1 up
> 2012-04-26 14:55:33.836144 osd e14: 3 osds: 3 up, 3 in
> 2012-04-26 14:55:33.886429 log 2012-04-26 14:52:50.674430 osd.1
> [2a00:f10:11c:ab:52e5:49ff:fec2:c976]:6807/28366 12 : [INF] 1.2b scrub ok
> 2012-04-26 14:55:33.892423 mon e1: 1 mons at
> {desktop=[2a00:f10:11c:ab:52e5:49ff:fec2:c976]:6789/0}
> root@stack01:~#
>
> I quick look at global_init.cc showed me why this happened, it simply looks
> for a configuration file to open and when it can't it fails.
>
> But if a monitor address is set, a config file shouldn't be mandatory.
>
> It could be accomplished rather simple by setting the flag
> CINIT_FLAG_NO_DEFAULT_CONFIG_FILE if a mon_host has been set, but to do that
> conf->parse_argv(args); should move a few lines up.
>
> Comments? Thoughts?
I wonder if the simplest thing to do is:
- never error out on missing config in the default search path
- always error out on missing config if it was explicitly specified via
-c foo or CEPH_CONF in environment.
?
sage
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