Hi Stefan, Hi Everyone, I am in a similar situation like you were a year ago. During some backfilling we removed an old snapshot and with the next deep-scrub we ended with the same log as you did. > deep-scrub 2.61b 2:d8736536:::rbd_data.e22260238e1f29.000000000046d527:177f6 : is an unexpected clone We run Luminous 12.2.10 and the snapshot 177f6 doesn't exist any more. The unexpected clone is replicated correctly over three OSDs and is still available in the file system. Thanh Tran wrote[1] that moving the objects away fixes the problem. But you wrote, that deleting the objects in the file system is crashing Ceph. What exactly means crashing? Was the PG, RBD or the whole cluster unavailable for the clients? Or nothing at all? I am not sure what is a good way to solve the problem: 1. Should I delete the objects in the file system with running OSDs and hopefully Ceph will fix the rest (like Thanh Tran did it). Maybe afterwards i have to do a remove-clone-metadata with the objectstore- tool? Will the PG and RBD stay online or should I plan an unavailability? 2. Should i use the ceph-objectstore-tool with remove and/or remove- clone-metadata to delete the objects for each OSD, one after another, so the PG can be online? 3. Should i use the ceph-objectstore-tool with remove or remove-clone- metadata to delete the objects with all OSDs down (belonging to the PG)? Do you have any advice? Was your PG/RBD/Cluster unavailable during the fix? Thanks, Achim [1] http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/2017-December/023199.html -- Achim Ledermüller, M. Sc. Lead Senior Systems Engineer NETWAYS Managed Services GmbH | Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 | D-90429 Nuernberg Tel: +49 911 92885-0 | Fax: +49 911 92885-77 CEO: Julian Hein, Bernd Erk | AG Nuernberg HRB25207 http://www.netways.de | Achim.Ledermueller@xxxxxxxxxx ** Icinga Camp Berlin 2019 - March - icinga.com ** ** OSDC 2019 - May - osdc.de ** ** Icinga as a Service - nws.netways.de ** _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com