Repair does the equivalent of a deep-scrub to find problems. This mostly is reading object data/omap/xattr to create checksums and compares them across all copies. When a discrepancy is identified an arbitrary copy which did not have I/O errors is selected and used to re-write the other replicas. David Zafman Senior Developer http://www.inktank.com On May 25, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Mike Lowe <j.michael.lowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anybody know exactly what ceph repair does? Could you list out briefly the steps it takes? I unfortunately need to use it for an inconsistent pg. > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com