diff --git a/src/common/config_opts.h b/src/common/config_opts.h
index d40da11a771..137e676b778 100644
--- a/src/common/config_opts.h
+++ b/src/common/config_opts.h
@@ -269,6 +269,9 @@ OPTION(fuse_default_permissions, OPT_BOOL, true)
 OPTION(fuse_big_writes, OPT_BOOL, true)
 OPTION(fuse_atomic_o_trunc, OPT_BOOL, true)
 OPTION(fuse_debug, OPT_BOOL, false)
+
+OPTION(crush_location, OPT_STR, "")       // whitespace-separated list of key=value pairs describing crush location
+
 OPTION(objecter_tick_interval, OPT_DOUBLE, 5.0)
 OPTION(objecter_timeout, OPT_DOUBLE, 10.0)    // before we ask for a map
 OPTION(objecter_inflight_op_bytes, OPT_U64, 1024*1024*100) // max in-flight data (both directions)