Hi, I'm testing MDS expasion, my original environment has 3 MON, 2 MDS (one active, one standby), 10 OSD which are built on 15 physical machines. the following is my step to test add/remove active MDS: Step1: check mds status root@MON1:~# ceph mds dump -o - 4097: 192.168.200.184:6800/2095 '0' mds0.1 up:active seq 66 4107: 192.168.200.185:6800/1911 '1' mds-1.0 up:standby seq 2 There are two mds, one is active, another is standby Step2: ceph mds set_max_mds 2 Step3: ceph -s 2011-04-22 08:33:03.836554 mds e18: 2/2/2 up {0=up:active,1=up:active} or root@MON1:~# ceph mds dump -o - max_mds 2 in 0,1 up {0=4097,1=4107} failed stopped 4097: 192.168.200.184:6800/2095 '0' mds0.1 up:active seq 66 4107: 192.168.200.185:6800/1911 '1' mds1.1 up:active seq 25635 Step4: I want to set one mds to standby, so I execute "ceph mds set_max_mds 1" root@MON1:~# ceph mds set_max_mds 1 2011-04-22 08:35:29.964667 mon <- [mds,set_max_mds,1] 2011-04-22 08:35:30.133274 mon0 -> 'max_mds = 1' (0) Step5: Then I check mds status root@MON1:~# ceph mds stat 2011-04-22 08:39:04.160139 mon <- [mds,stat] 2011-04-22 08:39:04.160823 mon0 -> 'e19: 2/2/1 up {0=up:active,1=up:active}' (0) ^^^^^^ What does the 2/2/1 means ? I found that the number of active MDS still remains two... Could you tell me how to reduce the active mds number from 2 to 1...? and what the 2/2/1 means ? Thanks a lot ! :) Best Regards, Annie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html