Precisely. This is what we need to do. It is just a case of adjusting our process to make that possible. As I stated a couple e-mails ago, the design of Ceph allows it, it is just a bit of a challenge to fit it into our existing processes. It's on me now to fix the process. On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 25 Jun 2013, at 00:39, Mandell Degerness wrote: > >> The issue, Sage, is that we have to deal with the cluster being >> re-expanded. If we start with 5 monitors and scale back to 3, running >> the "ceph mon remove N" command after stopping each monitor and don't >> restart the existing monitors, we cannot re-add those same monitors >> that were previously removed. They will suicide at startup. > > Can you not restart the remaining monitors individually at the > end of the process once the monmaps and the ceph.confs have been > updated so they only think there are 3 monitors? > > Once you have got to a stable 3 mon config, you can go back up > to 5. > > -- > Alex Bligh > > > > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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