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@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Independent CSI plugins are provided to support RBD and CephFS backed volumes,
   for CephFS plugin configuration and deployment please
   refer [cephfs doc](https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/blob/master/docs/deploy-cephfs.md).
 - For example usage of RBD and CephFS CSI plugins, see examples in `examples/`.
+- Stale resource cleanup, please refer [cleanup doc](docs/resource-cleanup.md).
 
 NOTE:
 
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+# Stale Resource Cleanup
+
+If the PVC is created with storage class which is having the `reclaimPolicy`
+as `Retain` will not delete the PV object, backend omap metadata and backend image.
+Manual deletion of PV will result in stale omap keys, values,
+cephfs subvolume and rbd image.
+It is required to cleanup metadata and image separately.
+
+## Steps
+
+### 1. Get PV name from PVC
+
+a. get pv_name
+
+  `[$]kubectl get pvc pvc_name -n namespace -owide`
+
+  ```bash
+  $ kubectl get pvc mysql-pvc -owide -n prometheus
+  NAME        STATUS   VOLUME
+  mysql-pvc   Bound    pvc-bc537af8-67fc-4963-99c4-f40b3401686a
+
+  CAPACITY   ACCESS MODES   STORAGECLASS   AGE   VOLUMEMODE
+  20Gi       RWO            csi-rbd        14d   Filesystem
+  ```
+
+### 2. Get omap key/value
+
+a. get omapkey (suffix of csi.volumes.default is value used for the CLI option
+   [--instanceid](deploy-rbd.md#configuration) in the provisioner deployment.)
+
+  `[$]rados listomapkeys csi.volumes.default -p pool_name | grep pv_name`
+
+  ```bash
+  $ rados listomapkeys csi.volumes.default -p kube_csi | grep pvc-bc537af8-67fc-4963-99c4-f40b3401686a
+  csi.volume.pvc-bc537af8-67fc-4963-99c4-f40b3401686a
+  ```
+
+b. get omapval
+
+  `[$]rados getomapval csi.volumes.default omapkey -p pool_name`
+
+  ```bash
+  $ rados getomapval csi.volumes.default csi.volume.pvc-bc537af8-67fc-4963-99c4-f40b3401686a
+    -p kube_csi
+  value (36 bytes) :
+  00000000  64 64 32 34 37 33 64 30  2d 36 61 38 63 2d 31 31  |dd2473d0-6a8c-11|
+  00000010  65 61 2d 39 31 31 33 2d  30 61 64 35 39 64 39 39  |ea-9113-0ad59d99|
+  00000020  35 63 65 37                                       |5ce7|
+  00000024
+  ```
+
+### 3. Delete the RBD image or CephFS subvolume
+
+a. remove rbd image(csi-vol-omapval, the prefix csi-vol is value of [volumeNamePrefix](deploy-rbd.md#configuration))
+
+  `[$]rbd remove rbd_image_name -p pool_name`
+
+  ```bash
+  $ rbd remove csi-vol-dd2473d0-6a8c-11ea-9113-0ad59d995ce7 -p kube_csi
+  Removing image: 100% complete...done.
+  ```
+
+b. remove cephfs subvolume(csi-vol-omapval)
+
+  `[$]ceph fs subvolume rm volume_name subvolume_name group_name`
+
+  ```bash
+  $ ceph fs subvolume rm  cephfs csi-vol-340daf84-5e8f-11ea-8560-6e87b41d7a6e csi
+  ```
+
+### 4. Delete omap object and omapkey
+
+a. delete omap object
+
+  `[$]rados rm csi.volume.omapval -p pool_name`
+
+  ```bash
+  $ rados rm csi.volume.dd2473d0-6a8c-11ea-9113-0ad59d995ce7 -p kube_csi
+  ```
+
+b. delete omapkey
+
+  `[$]rados rmomapkey csi.volumes.default csi.volume.omapkey -p pool_name`
+
+  ```
+  $ rados rmomapkey csi.volumes.default csi.volume.pvc-bc537af8-67fc-4963-99c4-f40b3401686a
+    -p kube_csi
+  ```
+
+### 5. Delete PV
+
+a. delete pv
+
+  `[$] kubectl delete pv pv_name -n namespace`
+
+  ```bash
+  $ kubectl delete pv pvc-bc537af8-67fc-4963-99c4-f40b3401686a -n prometheus
+  persistentvolume "pvc-bc537af8-67fc-4963-99c4-f40b3401686a" deleted
+  ```