Okay, this turned out to be down to cephadm rejecting the request because the new MON was not in the list of public networks. I had seen that error in the logs, but it looked as though it was a consequence of the store.db error, rather than a cause. After adding the new network, and repeating the request, the new MONs were created. On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 at 08:57, Adam Huffman <adam.huffman.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Forgot to say we're on Pacific 16.2.13. > > On Tue, 11 Jul 2023 at 08:55, Adam Huffman <adam.huffman.lists@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Hello >> >> I'm trying to add MONs in advance of a planned downtime. >> >> This has actually ended up removing an existing MON, which isn't helpful. >> >> The error I'm seeing is: >> >> Invalid argument: /var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-<hostname>/store.db: does not >> exist (create_if_missing is false) >> error opening mon data directory at '/var/lib/ceph/mon/ceph-<hostname>': >> (22) Invalid argument >> >> It appears that the fsid is being stripped, because the directory was >> there. >> It's now in /var/lib/ceph/<fsid>/removed >> >> This appears to be similar to: >> https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/45167 >> which was closed for lack of a reproducer. >> >> The command I ran was: >> >> sudo ceph orch apply mon --placement="comma-separated hostname list" >> >> after running that with "--dry-run". >> >> Would be grateful for some advice here - I wasn't expecting to reduce the >> MON count. >> >> Best Wishes, >> Adam >> > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx