Hi I'm trying to mark one OSD as down, so we can clean it out and replace it. It keeps getting medium read errors, so it's bound to fail sooner rather than later. When I command ceph from the mon to mark the osd down, it doesn't actually do it. When the service on the osd stops, it is also marked out and I'm thinking (but perhaps incorrectly?) that it would be good to keep the OSD down+in, to try to read from it as long as possible. Why doesn't it get marked down and stay that way when I command it? Context: Our cluster is in a bit of a less optimal state (see below), this is after one of OSD nodes had failed and took a week to get back up (long story). Due to a seriously unbalanced filling of our OSDs we kept having to reweight OSDs to keep below the 85% threshold. Several disks are starting to fail now (they're 4+ years old and failures are expected to occur more frequently). I'm open to suggestions to help get us back to health_ok more quickly, but I think we'll get there eventually anyway... Cheers /Simon ---- # ceph -s cluster: health: HEALTH_ERR 1 clients failing to respond to cache pressure 1/843763422 objects unfound (0.000%) noout flag(s) set 14 scrub errors Possible data damage: 1 pg recovery_unfound, 1 pg inconsistent Degraded data redundancy: 13795525/7095598195 objects degraded (0.194%), 13 pgs degraded, 12 pgs undersized 70 pgs not deep-scrubbed in time 65 pgs not scrubbed in time services: mon: 3 daemons, quorum cephmon3,cephmon1,cephmon2 (age 11h) mgr: cephmon3(active, since 35h), standbys: cephmon1 mds: 1/1 daemons up, 1 standby osd: 264 osds: 264 up (since 2m), 264 in (since 75m); 227 remapped pgs flags noout rgw: 8 daemons active (4 hosts, 1 zones) data: volumes: 1/1 healthy pools: 15 pools, 3681 pgs objects: 843.76M objects, 1.2 PiB usage: 2.0 PiB used, 847 TiB / 2.8 PiB avail pgs: 13795525/7095598195 objects degraded (0.194%) 54839263/7095598195 objects misplaced (0.773%) 1/843763422 objects unfound (0.000%) 3374 active+clean 195 active+remapped+backfill_wait 65 active+clean+scrubbing+deep 20 active+remapped+backfilling 11 active+clean+snaptrim 10 active+undersized+degraded+remapped+backfill_wait 2 active+undersized+degraded+remapped+backfilling 2 active+clean+scrubbing 1 active+recovery_unfound+degraded 1 active+clean+inconsistent progress: Global Recovery Event (8h) [==========================..] (remaining: 2h)