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:
  replicated:
  #  size: 3
  erasureCoded:
    dataChunks: 2
    codingChunks: 1

Pool Settings

Metadata

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

Spec

• replicated: Settings for a replicated pool. If specified, erasureCoded settings must not be specified.
  • size: The number of copies of the data in the pool.
• erasureCoded: Settings for an erasure-coded pool. If specified, replicated settings must not be specified.
  • dataChunks: Number of data chunks per object in an erasure coded storage pool
  • codingChunks: Number of coding chunks per object in an erasure coded storage pool
• failureDomain: The failure domain across which the replicas or chunks of data will be spread. Possible values are osd or host, with the default of host. For example, if you have replication of size 3 and the failure domain is host, all three copies of the data will be placed on osds that are found on unique hosts. In that case you would be guaranteed to tolerate the failure of two hosts. If the failure domain were osd, you would be able to tolerate the loss of two devices. Similarly for erasure coding, the data and coding chunks would be spread across the requested failure domain.