Ah, totally forgot the additional details :) OS is SUSE Enterprise Linux 12.0 with all patches, Ceph version 0.94.3 4 node cluster with 2x 10GBe networking, one for cluster and one for public network, 1 additional server purely as an admin server. Test machine is also 10gbe connected ceph.conf is included: [global] fsid = 312e0996-a13c-46d3-abe3-903e0b4a589a mon_initial_members = ceph-admin, ceph-01, ceph-02, ceph-03, ceph-04 mon_host = 192.168.0.190,192.168.0.191,192.168.0.192,192.168.0.193,192.168.0.194 auth_cluster_required = cephx auth_service_required = cephx auth_client_required = cephx filestore_xattr_use_omap = true public network = 192.168.0.0/24 cluster network = 192.168.10.0/24 osd pool default size = 2 [osd] osd journal size = 2048 Thanks again for any help and merry xmas already . //F _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com