On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:04 PM Eugen Block <eblock@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi again, > > we still didn't figure out the reason for the flapping, but I wanted > to get back on the dmesg entries. > They just reflect what happened in the past, they're no indicator to > predict anything. The kernel client is just that, a client. Almost by definition, everything it sees has already happened. > > For example, when I changed the primary-affinity of OSD.24 last week, > one of the clients realized that only today, 4 days later. If the > clients don't have to communicate with the respective host/osd in the > meantime, they log those events on the next reconnect. Correct, except it doesn't have to be a specific host or a specific OSD. What matters here is whether the client is idle. As soon as the client is woken up and sends a request to _any_ OSD, it receives a new osdmap and applies it, possibly emitting those dmesg entries. Thanks, Ilya _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com