Hi, > On 29 Sep 2014, at 10:01, Daniel Swarbrick <daniel.swarbrick at profitbricks.com> wrote: > > On 26/09/14 17:16, Dan Van Der Ster wrote: >> Hi, >> Apologies for this trivial question, but what is the correct procedure to replace a failed OSD that uses a shared journal device? >> >> I?m just curious, for such a routine operation, what are most admins doing in this case? >> > > I think ceph-osd is what you need. > > ceph-osd -i <osd id> ?mkjournal At the moment I am indeed using this command to in our puppet manifests for creating and replacing OSDs. But now I?m trying to use the ceph-disk udev magic, since it seems to be the best (perhaps only?) way to get persistently named OSD and journal devs (on RHEL6). Cheers, Dan