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 _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com