On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Tommi Virtanen <tommi.virtanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Actually, it should work, if you have a daemon running for that MDS. Once it's running, execute "ceph mds stop 1" and it should export authority to the remaining MDS and shut down cleanly. -Greg -- 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