This makes sense. So if other mons come up that are *not* defined as initial mons, then they will not be in service until the initial mon is up and ready? At which point they can form their quorum and operate? > -----Original Message----- > From: Gregory Farnum [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 10:19 PM > To: Don Talton (dotalton) > Cc: ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: ceph-deploy issues with initial mons that aren't up > > "mon initial members" is a race prevention mechanism whose purpose is to > prevent your monitors from forming separate quorums when they're > brought up by automated software provisioning systems (by not allowing > monitors to form a quorum unless everybody in the list is a member). > If you want to add other monitors at a later time you can do so by specifying > them elsewhere (including in mon hosts or whatever, so other daemons will > attempt to contact them.) -Greg Software Engineer #42 @ > http://inktank.com | http://ceph.com > > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Don Talton (dotalton) > <dotalton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I just realized my email is not clear. If the first mon is up and the additional > initials are not, then the process fails. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: ceph-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ceph-users- > >> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Talton (dotalton) > >> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 2:44 PM > >> To: ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> Subject: ceph-deploy issues with initial mons that > >> aren't up > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I've been working in some ceph-deploy automation and think I've > >> stumbled on an interesting behavior. I create a new cluster, and > >> specify 3 machines. If all 3 are not and unable to be ssh'd into with > >> the account I created for ceph- deploy, then the mon create process > >> will fail and the cluster is not properly setup with keys, etc. > >> > >> This seems odd to me, since I may want to specify initial mons that > >> may not yet be up (say they are waiting for cobbler to finish loading > >> them for example), but I want them as part of the initial cluster. > >> > >> > >> Donald Talton > >> Cloud Systems Development > >> Cisco Systems > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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
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