This is all on firefly rc1 on CentOS 6 I had an osd getting overfull, and misinterpreting directions I downed it then manually removed pg directories from the osd mount. On restart and after a good deal of rebalancing (setting osd weights as I should've originally), I'm now at cluster de10594a-0737-4f34-a926-58dc9254f95f health HEALTH_WARN 2 pgs backfill; 1 pgs incomplete; 1 pgs stuck inactive; 308 pgs stuck unclean; recov ery 1/2420563 objects degraded (0.000%); noout flag(s) set monmap e7: 3 mons at {controller1=10.100.2.1:6789/0,controller2=10.100.2.2:6789/0,controller3=10.100.2. 3:6789/0}, election epoch 556, quorum 0,1,2 controller1,controller2,controller3 mdsmap e268: 1/1/1 up {0=controller1=up:active} osdmap e3492: 5 osds: 5 up, 5 in flags noout pgmap v4167420: 320 pgs, 15 pools, 4811 GB data, 1181 kobjects 9770 GB used, 5884 GB / 15654 GB avail 1/2420563 objects degraded (0.000%) 3 active 12 active+clean 2 active+remapped+wait_backfill 1 incomplete 302 active+remapped client io 364 B/s wr, 0 op/s # ceph pg dump | grep 0.2f dumped all in format plain 0.2f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 incomplete 2014-05-03 11:38:01.526832 0'0 3492:23 [4] 4 [4] 4 2254'20053 2014-04-28 00:24:36.504086 2100'18109 2014-04-26 22:26:23.699330 # ceph pg map 0.2f osdmap e3492 pg 0.2f (0.2f) -> up [4] acting [4] The pg query for the downed pg is at https://gist.github.com/jeffb-bt/c8730899ff002070b325 Of course, the osd I manually mucked with is the only one the cluster is picking up as up/acting. Now, I can query the pg and find epochs where other osds (that I didn't jack up) were acting. And in fact, the latest of those entries (osd.1) has the pg directory in its osd mount, and it's a good healthy 59gb. I've tried manually rsync'ing (and preserving attributes) that set of directories from osd.1 to osd.4 without success. Likewise I've tried copying the directories over without attributes set. I've done many, many deep scrubs but the pg query does not show the scrub timestamps being affected. I'm seeking ideas for either fixing metadata on the directory on osd.4 to cause this pg to be seen/recognized, or ideas on forcing the cluster's pg map to point to osd.1 for the incomplete pg (basically wiping out the cluster's memory that osd.4 ever had 0.2f). Or any other solution :) It's only 59g, so worst case I'll mark it lost and recreate the pg, but I'd prefer to learn enough of the innards to understand what is going on, and possible means of fixing it. Thanks for any help, Jeff