On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Mandell Degerness wrote: > When a cluster has been shut down and then re-started, how do the > monitors know what the cluster fsid is? Is it stored somewhere? It's embedded in the monmap, currently found at $mon_data/monmap/<largest integer file>. Not terribly convenient, sorry! > I would like to be able to verify, before starting a monitor on a > given server, if an existing monitor directory belongs to the current > cluster or to a previous cluster incarnation. With the OSDs, I can > just check the cluster_fsid file. We can add a similar file in the $mon_data directory in future version. sage -- 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