On 12/4/25 20:56, Tim Holloway wrote: > Which brings up something I've wondered about for some time. Shouldn't > it be possible for OSDs to be portable? That is, if a box goes bad, in > theory I should be able to remove the drive and jack it into a hot-swap > bay on another server and have that server able to import the relocated OSD. > > True, the metadata for an OSD is currently located on its host, but it > seems like it should be possible to carry a copy on the actual device.
It seems to me the theoretical way to do this would be to `ceph-volume lvm migrate` it to the HDD, then move the HDD to a new machine. That would require the box not be fatally bad though, so I'm not sure how much that helps. Are there lower level tools which could be used instead of the above? Greg. _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io
