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benjojo posted 15 Aug 2026 10:51 +0000

Ceph's thresholds for what deserves going into CEPH_WARN state is always curious.

For example:

BLUESTORE_SPURIOUS_READ_ERRORS: 1 OSD(s) have spurious read errors

Like, ok, cool

So I go and look at the sled that has that OSD on it, and run "dmesg" as a general vibe check.

Cool, /dev/sdh is the drive that seems to be flapping every few days.

Actually, nope! Ceph had picked up that a totally different drive had returned 3 read errors in 24 hours, that triggered CEPH_WARN. But a totally different OSD just falling off, and coming back for a week+ (and the SMART has a lot of (successful) reassigned sectors), not worth even slightly talking about.

Curious software