Mystery solved. I loaded the zonegroup up with 100K hostnanes. That caused the period to fail to decode when other zones try to pick up the new period. Apparently, there is a size limit on how big zonegroup info can be but implicitly. Regards, Yixin Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx