Appendix A. General configuration options

These are the general configuration options for Ceph.

Note

Typically, these will be set automatically by deployment tools, such as cephadm.

fsid
Description
The file system ID. One per cluster.
Type
UUID
Required
No.
Default
N/A. Usually generated by deployment tools.
admin_socket
Description
The socket for executing administrative commands on a daemon, irrespective of whether Ceph monitors have established a quorum.
Type
String
Required
No
Default
/var/run/ceph/$cluster-$name.asok
pid_file
Description
The file in which the monitor or OSD will write its PID. For instance, /var/run/$cluster/$type.$id.pid will create /var/run/ceph/mon.a.pid for the mon with id a running in the ceph cluster. The pid file is removed when the daemon stops gracefully. If the process is not daemonized (meaning it runs with the -f or -d option), the pid file is not created.
Type
String
Required
No
Default
No
chdir
Description
The directory Ceph daemons change to once they are up and running. Default / directory recommended.
Type
String
Required
No
Default
/
max_open_files
Description
If set, when the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster starts, Ceph sets the max_open_fds at the OS level (that is, the max # of file descriptors). It helps prevent Ceph OSDs from running out of file descriptors.
Type
64-bit Integer
Required
No
Default
0
fatal_signal_handlers
Description
If set, we will install signal handlers for SEGV, ABRT, BUS, ILL, FPE, XCPU, XFSZ, SYS signals to generate a useful log message.
Type
Boolean
Default
true