You are correct, but that will involve massive data movement.

You can change the failure domain osd/host/rack/datacenter/etc...
You can change the replica_count=2,3,4,5,6
You *CAN'T* change the EC value eg. 4+2 to something else



Kind regards,
Nino


On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 12:40 AM Angelo Höngens <ang...@hongens.nl> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Just to confirm my understanding: If I set up a 3-osd cluster really
> fast with an EC42 pool, and I set the crush map to osd failover
> domain, the data will be distributed among the osd's, and of course
> there won't be protection against host failure. And yes, I know that's
> a bad idea, but I need the extra storage really fast, and it's a
> backup of other data. So availability is important, but now critical.
>
> If I then add 5 more hosts a week later, I can just edit the crush map
> and change the failover domain from osd to host, put the crush map
> back in, and ceph should automatically distribute all the pg's over
> the osd's again to be fully host-fault tolerant, right?
>
> Am I understanding this correctly?
>
> Angelo.
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