On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Yasuhiro Ohara <y...@soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> What will happen when constructing a cluster of 10 host,
> but the hosts are gradually removed from the cluster
> one by one (in each step waiting Ceph status to become healthy),
> and reaches eventually to, say, 3 hosts ?
>
> In other words, is there any problem with having 10 osd configuration
> in the ceph.conf, but actually only 3 is up (the 7 are down and out) ?

If you're not using the /etc/init.d ceph script to start up everything
with the -a option, this will work just fine.

>
> I assume that if the size of the replication is 3, we can turn off
> 2 osds at each time, and Ceph can recover itself to the healthy state.
> Is it the case ?

Yeah, that should work fine. You might consider just marking OSDs
"out" two at a time and not actually killing them until the cluster
has become quiescent again, though — that way they can participate as
a source for recovery.
-Greg
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