doc/rados/operations: Detail for min_size on EC pools

Signed-off-by: Brad Hubbard <bhubbard@redhat.com>

diff --git a/doc/rados/operations/pools.rst b/doc/rados/operations/pools.rst
index 1f22a4479626da1cb0aa35b8147756ae6aadbf9c..9c4c27ef7e6271b5b1d1eebfe101f5905ea58c34 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/rados/operations/pools.rst
+++ b/doc/rados/operations/pools.rst
@@ -316,6 +316,11 @@ You may set values for the following keys:
 
 :Description: Sets the minimum number of replicas required for I/O.
               See `Set the Number of Object Replicas`_ for further details.
+              In the case of Erasure Coded pools this should be set to a value
+              greater than 'k' since if we allow IO at the value 'k' there is no
+              redundancy and data will be lost in the event of a permanent OSD
+              failure. For more information see `Erasure Code
+              <../erasure-code>`_
 
 :Type: Integer
 :Version: ``0.54`` and above