Journals have not gone anywhere, and ceph-deploy still supports specifying them with exactly the same syntax as before. The page you're looking at is the simplified "quick start", the detail on osd creation including journals is here: http://eu.ceph.com/docs/v0.77/rados/deployment/ceph-deploy-osd/ Cheers, John On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Markus Goldberg <goldberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > i'm a little bit surprised. I read through the new manuals of 0.77 > (http://eu.ceph.com/docs/v0.77/start/quick-ceph-deploy/) > In the section of creating the osd the manual says: > > Then, from your admin node, use ceph-deploy to prepare the OSDs. > > ceph-deploy osd prepare {ceph-node}:/path/to/directory > > For example: > > ceph-deploy osd prepare node2:/var/local/osd0 node3:/var/local/osd1 > > Finally, activate the OSDs. > > ceph-deploy osd activate {ceph-node}:/path/to/directory > > For example: > > ceph-deploy osd activate node2:/var/local/osd0 node3:/var/local/osd1 > > > In former versions the osd was created like: > > ceph-deploy -v --overwrite-conf osd --fs-type btrfs prepare > bd-0:/dev/sdb:/dev/sda5 > > ^^^^^^^^^^ Journal > As i remember defining and creating a journal for each osd was a must. > > So the question is: Are Journals obsolet now ? > > -- > MfG, > Markus Goldberg > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Markus Goldberg Universität Hildesheim > Rechenzentrum > Tel +49 5121 88392822 Marienburger Platz 22, D-31141 Hildesheim, Germany > Fax +49 5121 88392823 email goldberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > 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