diff --git a/pkg/daemon/ceph/client/pool.go b/pkg/daemon/ceph/client/pool.go
index 5813c3df5c92..421f2e2a5a1c 100644
--- a/pkg/daemon/ceph/client/pool.go
+++ b/pkg/daemon/ceph/client/pool.go
@@ -408,8 +408,11 @@ func CreateReplicatedPoolForApp(context *clusterd.Context, clusterInfo *ClusterI
 
 	if !clusterSpec.IsStretchCluster() {
 		// the pool is type replicated, set the size for the pool now that it's been created
-		if err := SetPoolReplicatedSizeProperty(context, clusterInfo, poolName, strconv.FormatUint(uint64(pool.Replicated.Size), 10)); err != nil {
-			return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to set size property to replicated pool %q to %d", poolName, pool.Replicated.Size)
+		// Only set the size if not 0, otherwise ceph will fail to set size to 0
+		if pool.Replicated.Size > 0 {
+			if err := SetPoolReplicatedSizeProperty(context, clusterInfo, poolName, strconv.FormatUint(uint64(pool.Replicated.Size), 10)); err != nil {
+				return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to set size property to replicated pool %q to %d", poolName, pool.Replicated.Size)
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/pkg/operator/ceph/nfs/controller.go b/pkg/operator/ceph/nfs/controller.go
index 0107e2ef1e47..66118feb2489 100644
--- a/pkg/operator/ceph/nfs/controller.go
+++ b/pkg/operator/ceph/nfs/controller.go
@@ -278,8 +278,11 @@ func (r *ReconcileCephNFS) reconcile(request reconcile.Request) (reconcile.Resul
 	if err := validateGanesha(r.context, r.clusterInfo, cephNFS); err != nil {
 		return reconcile.Result{}, errors.Wrapf(err, "invalid ceph nfs %q arguments", cephNFS.Name)
 	}
-	if err := r.fetchOrCreatePool(cephNFS); err != nil {
-		return reconcile.Result{}, errors.Wrap(err, "failed to fetch or create RADOS pool")
+
+	// Always create the default pool
+	err = r.createDefaultNFSRADOSPool(cephNFS)
+	if err != nil {
+		return reconcile.Result{}, errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to create default pool %q", cephNFS.Spec.RADOS.Pool)
 	}
 
 	// CREATE/UPDATE
diff --git a/pkg/operator/ceph/nfs/controller_test.go b/pkg/operator/ceph/nfs/controller_test.go
index 33c815157236..140fecb7c636 100644
--- a/pkg/operator/ceph/nfs/controller_test.go
+++ b/pkg/operator/ceph/nfs/controller_test.go
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ package nfs
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"errors"
 	"os"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/coreos/pkg/capnslog"
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 	cephv1 "github.com/rook/rook/pkg/apis/ceph.rook.io/v1"
 	rookclient "github.com/rook/rook/pkg/client/clientset/versioned/fake"
 	"github.com/rook/rook/pkg/client/clientset/versioned/scheme"
@@ -46,25 +46,6 @@ var (
 	name                      = "my-nfs"
 	namespace                 = "rook-ceph"
 	nfsCephAuthGetOrCreateKey = `{"key":"AQCvzWBeIV9lFRAAninzm+8XFxbSfTiPwoX50g=="}`
-	poolDetails               = `{
-		"pool": "foo",
-		"pool_id": 1,
-		"size": 3,
-		"min_size": 2,
-		"pg_num": 8,
-		"pgp_num": 8,
-		"crush_rule": "replicated_rule",
-		"hashpspool": true,
-		"nodelete": false,
-		"nopgchange": false,
-		"nosizechange": false,
-		"write_fadvise_dontneed": false,
-		"noscrub": false,
-		"nodeep-scrub": false,
-		"use_gmt_hitset": true,
-		"fast_read": 0,
-		"pg_autoscale_mode": "on"
-	  }`
 )
 
 func TestCephNFSController(t *testing.T) {
@@ -202,10 +183,16 @@ func TestCephNFSController(t *testing.T) {
 				if args[0] == "auth" && args[1] == "get-or-create-key" {
 					return nfsCephAuthGetOrCreateKey, nil
 				}
-				if args[0] == "osd" && args[1] == "pool" && args[2] == "get" {
-					return poolDetails, nil
+				if args[0] == "osd" && args[1] == "pool" && args[2] == "create" {
+					return "", nil
 				}
-				return "", errors.New("unknown command")
+				if args[0] == "osd" && args[1] == "crush" && args[2] == "rule" {
+					return "", nil
+				}
+				if args[0] == "osd" && args[1] == "pool" && args[2] == "application" {
+					return "", nil
+				}
+				return "", errors.Errorf("unknown command %q %v", command, args)
 			},
 			MockExecuteCommand: func(command string, args ...string) error {
 				if command == "rados" {
diff --git a/pkg/operator/ceph/nfs/nfs.go b/pkg/operator/ceph/nfs/nfs.go
index 937895bd1f25..88fb364d88ea 100644
--- a/pkg/operator/ceph/nfs/nfs.go
+++ b/pkg/operator/ceph/nfs/nfs.go
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ package nfs
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
-	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/banzaicloud/k8s-objectmatcher/patch"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
@@ -296,19 +295,3 @@ func (r *ReconcileCephNFS) createDefaultNFSRADOSPool(n *cephv1.CephNFS) error {
 
 	return nil
 }
-
-func (r *ReconcileCephNFS) fetchOrCreatePool(n *cephv1.CephNFS) error {
-	// The existence of the pool provided in n.Spec.RADOS.Pool is necessary otherwise addRADOSConfigFile() will fail
-	_, err := cephclient.GetPoolDetails(r.context, r.clusterInfo, n.Spec.RADOS.Pool)
-	if err != nil {
-		if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "unrecognized pool") && r.clusterInfo.CephVersion.IsAtLeastPacific() {
-			err := r.createDefaultNFSRADOSPool(n)
-			if err != nil {
-				return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to find %q pool and unable to create it", n.Spec.RADOS.Pool)
-			}
-			return nil
-		}
-		return errors.Wrapf(err, "pool %q not found", n.Spec.RADOS.Pool)
-	}
-	return nil
-}