thanks for the quick responses. seems to be working ok for me, but... [OT] I keep hitting this issue where ceph-deploy will not mkdir /etc/ceph/ before it tries to "write cluster configuration to /etc/ceph/{cluster}.conf". Manually creating the dir on each mon node allows me to issue a "ceph-deploy mon create rc-ceph-node1" successfully. Is this a bug? a missing step from the quickstart? I first gave the quickstart a try under raring ringtail last week. it didn't nip me the first time through the quickstart, but after ceph-deploy purgedata Š, ceph-deploy forgetkeys, it has plagued me each time since. _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com