Re: Why are RGW pools all prefixed with a period (.)?

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On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Wido den Hollander <wido@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's something which has been 'bugging' me for some time now. Why are
> RGW pools prefixed with a period?
>
> I tried setting the root pool to 'rgw.root', but RGW (0.94.1) refuses to
> start:
>
> ERROR: region root pool name must start with a period
>
> I'm sending pool statistics to Graphite and when sending a key like this
> you 'break' Graphite: ceph.pools.stats.<pool_name>.kb_read
>
> A pool like .rgw.root will break this since Graphite splits on periods.
>
> So is there any reason why this is? What's the reasoning behind it?

This might just be a leftover from when we were mapping buckets into
RADOS pools. Yehuda, is there some more current reason?
-Greg
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