thank you Robert! this sounds like split brain again... but we have a quorum system by using 3 monitor nodes. so only the room with the majority of the ceph-mons is available for I/O. if the room with the majority of the ceph-mons is the one that is cut-off, I suppose we'd need to do this: go into the room, shut off the two ceph-mons and then force the other room to start working, right? shuting down down the 2 ceph-mons (in the offline room) would avoid the split-brain scenario: 'If you now allow changes in the "smaller" room in addition to changes in the room with two copies you immediately get a conflict as soon as the network connection between both rooms is reestablished.' or am I wrong? but well, I get why keeping min_size at 2 makes sense but wasn't sure about setting it to 1 in certain scenarios _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx