On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:48, Jens Rehpöhler <jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > one of my test mds servers died a few days ago. (hardware crash) I will > not buy a new one. > > Is there any chance to remove this laggy mds ? Start the mds daemon somewhere. If you don't want to fix/replace the hardware, well, start it somewhere else. It has no local state. Decreasing the number of active mdses is not currently supported. -- 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