diff --git a/playbookconfig/src/playbooks/roles/recover-ceph-data/files/recover_cephfs.sh b/playbookconfig/src/playbooks/roles/recover-ceph-data/files/recover_cephfs.sh
index df3f4e6a9..12aea97d3 100755
--- a/playbookconfig/src/playbooks/roles/recover-ceph-data/files/recover_cephfs.sh
+++ b/playbookconfig/src/playbooks/roles/recover-ceph-data/files/recover_cephfs.sh
@@ -31,15 +31,12 @@ set -x
 # Check if the filesystem for the system RWX provisioner is present
 ceph fs ls | grep ${FS_NAME}
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
-    # Attempt to create the pool if not present, this should be present
-    ceph fs new ${FS_NAME} ${METADATA_POOL_NAME} ${DATA_POOL_NAME}
-    if [ $? -eq 22 ]; then
-        # We need to rebuild the fs since we have hit:
-        #   Error EINVAL: pool 'kube-cephfs-metadata' already contains some
-        #   objects. Use an empty pool instead.
-        ceph fs new ${FS_NAME} ${METADATA_POOL_NAME} ${DATA_POOL_NAME} --force
-        ceph fs reset ${FS_NAME} --yes-i-really-mean-it
-    fi
+    # If we have existing metadata/data pools, use them
+    ceph fs new ${FS_NAME} ${METADATA_POOL_NAME} ${DATA_POOL_NAME} --force
+    # Reset the filesystem and journal
+    ceph fs reset ${FS_NAME} --yes-i-really-mean-it
+    cephfs-journal-tool --rank=${FS_NAME}:0 event recover_dentries summary
+    cephfs-journal-tool --rank=${FS_NAME}:0 journal reset
 fi
 
 # Start the Ceph MDS
diff --git a/playbookconfig/src/playbooks/roles/recover-ceph-data/tasks/main.yml b/playbookconfig/src/playbooks/roles/recover-ceph-data/tasks/main.yml
index e8e6ca65c..6f1ef7824 100644
--- a/playbookconfig/src/playbooks/roles/recover-ceph-data/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/playbookconfig/src/playbooks/roles/recover-ceph-data/tasks/main.yml
@@ -281,6 +281,9 @@
       script: recover_cephfs.sh
       register: cephfs_recovery_out
 
+    - name: Create ceph.client.guest.keyring to allow ceph mount again
+      command: touch /etc/ceph/ceph.client.guest.keyring
+
     - debug: var=cephfs_recovery_out.stdout_lines
 
     - name: Restart ceph one more time to pick latest changes