Hi, to avoid confusion: the configuration did *not* contain multiple osds referring to the same journal device (or file). The snippet from ceph.conf suggests osd.214 and osd.314 both use the same journal - but it doesn't show that these osds run on different hosts. Regards Andreas Bluemle On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 11:23:18 +0200 Andreas Friedrich <andreas.friedrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Ceph test cluster with 88 OSDs running well. > > In ceph.conf I found multiple OSDs that are using the same SSD block > device (without a file system) for their journal: > > [osd.214] > osd journal = /dev/fioa1 > ... > [osd.314] > osd journal = /dev/fioa1 > ... > > Is this a allowed configuration? > > Regards > Andreas Friedrich > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > FUJITSU > Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH > Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1, 33106 Paderborn, Germany > Tel: +49 (5251) 525-1512 > Fax: +49 (5251) 525-321512 > Email: andreas.friedrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web: ts.fujitsu.com > Company details: de.ts.fujitsu.com/imprint > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Andreas Bluemle mailto:Andreas.Bluemle@xxxxxxxxxxx ITXperts GmbH http://www.itxperts.de Balanstrasse 73, Geb. 08 Phone: (+49) 89 89044917 D-81541 Muenchen (Germany) Fax: (+49) 89 89044910 Company details: http://www.itxperts.de/imprint.htm _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com