Yes, the monitors need to be specified in the ceph.conf still. ceph-deploy and similar systems make sure to do so. -Greg Software Engineer #42 @ http://inktank.com | http://ceph.com On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Wolfgang Hennerbichler <wogri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ok, thanks for the detailed answer, I already assumed so. > But how do the OSD's then find their mon's? I believe this again has to be in ceph.conf, right? > > wogri > -- > http://www.wogri.at > > On Oct 9, 2013, at 21:36 , Gregory Farnum <greg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Previously the Ceph startup scripts required an enumeration of the >> daemons in the ceph.conf in order to start them. We've been doing a >> lot of incremental work since last October or so to make the system do >> more self-bootstrapping, and by the time we released Dumpling that got >> far enough to be used as the default configuration system (although it >> wasn't only for Dumpling). >> Now all the startup scripts will look in the default paths (or those >> specified by a ceph.conf in /etc/ceph, I believe) for anything that >> "looks like" a daemon, and start them up if they're present. This was >> the natural evolution of doing things like setting up udev rules that >> automatically ran any OSDs that have been created on a freshly >> plugged-in disk (which is how all the ceph-disk-[prepare|activate] >> stuff works). >> In general we find that this is easier to maintain since users are >> less likely to have conflicting ceph.confs across multiple nodes, and >> it doesn't present the illusion that a monolithic config file is >> necessary — but you are of course free to do otherwise if you prefer! >> -Greg >> Software Engineer #42 @ http://inktank.com | http://ceph.com >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Wolfgang Hennerbichler <wogri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I would also love to see this answered, this is sometimes asked during my geek on duty shift and I don't know a real answer to this, and I myself always do it old-(bobtail)-style. >>> >>> Wolfgang >>> -- >>> http://www.wogri.at >>> >>> On Oct 9, 2013, at 13:54 , su kucherova <su.kucherova@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> When I compare the /etc/ceph.conf for the latest release-dumpling and previous releases I find they are different. >>>> >>>> in the older release we had [osd],[mon],[msd] in the ceph.conf >>>> now i dont seem them.Where are these values stored now? >>>> How does ceph figure out the partitions of osd and journal >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Su >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> ceph-users mailing list >>>> ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ceph-users mailing list >>> ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com