Troubleshooting the 2147483647 error

This small section is included within the erasure coding chapter rather than the troubleshooting section of this book, as it's commonly seen with erasure-coded pools and so is very relevant to this chapter. An example of this error is shown in the following screenshot, when running the ceph health detail command:

If you see 2147483647 listed as one of the OSDs for an erasure-coded pool, this normally means that CRUSH was unable to find a sufficient number of OSDs to complete the PG peering process. This is normally due to the number of K+M shards being larger than the number of hosts in the CRUSH topology. ...

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