Please show the exact errors you are getting. You should not need a
mon on the same node to create an mds, though you will want an
/etc/ceph/ceph.conf that points to the mons.
On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 2:58 PM <marcopizzolo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Presently I have about 1.2B objects (400M w/3 Replicas) and I'm finding the PG
scrubbing and deep scrubbing are not completing. There is only 1 client accessing the
data, a Samba server. I found large disparities in PG Distribution and Drive utilization.
I enabled pg_autoscaler and found that it was reducing the number of PGs per OSD from 116
to 104.5 at this time, but it wasn't helping with space consumption equalization. I
found loadbalancer and enabled that and it is in the process of evening out. As we were
also having mds crashes even after increasing mds memory, i tried enabling multimds with
rank:2
>
> I currently have only 1 spare and would like to potentially enable the mds component
on the fourth node (no mon present) but am having some difficulty.
>
> Is mon a requirement?
>
> I tried ceph-deploy mds create node4 but am having errors. I tried manually creating
the /var/lib/ceph/mds/node4 directory and the command to create the keyring but still no
joy.
>
> What am i missing?
>
> Thanks,
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