Ceph

PLEASE NOTE: This document applies to v0.5 version and not to the latest stable release v1.8

Documentation for other releases can be found by using the version selector in the top right of any doc page.

Creating Rook Storage Pools

Rook allows creation and customization of storage pools through the custom resource definitions (CRDs). The following settings are available for pools.

Sample

apiVersion: rook.io/v1alpha1
kind: Pool
metadata:
  name: ecpool
  namespace: rook
spec:
  replication:
  #  size: 3
  erasureCode:
    codingChunks: 2
    dataChunks: 2

Pool Settings

Metadata

name: The name of the pool to create.
namespace: The namespace of the Rook cluster where the pool is created.

Spec

replication: Settings for a replicated pool. If specified, erasureCode settings must not be specified.
- size: The number of copies of the data in the pool.
erasureCode: Settings for an erasure-coded pool. If specified, replication settings must not be specified.
- codingChunks: Number of coding chunks per object in an erasure coded storage pool
- dataChunks: Number of data chunks per object in an erasure coded storage pool