Hi, I am testing the same case. My system is 1 MON , 2 MDS, 3OSD. Here is my steps: 1) First, I set the max number of MDS to 2 , so there are two active MDSs. 192.168.200.184:6800/2095 '0' mds0.1 up:active seq 66 192.168.200.185:6800/1911 '1' mds1.1 up:active seq 25635 2) I want to set the active one to standby. I excute"ceph mds set_max_mds 1" and "ceph mds stop 0". But here is why I confuse: mds0 becomes stopping not standby.?? It shows: 192.138.200.185:6800/14465 ‘1’mds0.6 up:stopping seq 14 192.138.200.184:6800/15442 ‘0’mds1.1 up:active seq 210 3) When I excute"ceph mds set_max_mds 2", mds0 doesn't become active, I type"ceph mds dump -o -" But it shows: 192.138.200.185:6800/14465 ‘1’mds0.6 up:stopping seq 14 export_targets=1 192.138.200.184:6800/15442 ‘0’mds1.1 up:active seq 210 There is no two active MDSes, why? 4) Therefore, I still hope that there are one active mds and one standby mds(by default). I restart the system. I execute" /etc/init.d/ceph -a stop" and " /etc/init.d/ceph -a start" I type"ceph -s" But it shows: mds e52: 2/2/1 up {0=up:rejoin, 1=up:resolve} ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ what means? After awhile I execue”ceph mds stat” , it shows: ‘e61: 2/2/1 up {o=up:relay, 1=up:relay}’ (0) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ what means? 5) I set the man active number to one because I still want the system by default value(one active and one standby). I execute"ceph mds set_max_mds 1" It shows: mds e80: 2/2/1 up {0=up:rejoin, 1=up:rejoin}, 1:up:standby mds e80: 2/2/1 up {0=up:active, 1=up:rejoin}, 1:up:standby mds e80: 2/2/1 up {0=up:active, 1=up:active}, 1:up:standby ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I don't know what it means. Why there are three statuses? Aren't there just 2 MDSes in my system? I execue"ceph -s" It shows: mds e94: 2/2/1 up {0=up:active,1=up:active}, 1 up:standby Please help me to solve these questions.. And teach me how to set the MDS by the default(1 active & 1 standby)? Thank you very much ^^ Best regards Stefanie Chen -- 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