On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Sage Weil <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Gregory Farnum wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Martin Mailand <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hi Tomasz,
>> > as far as I know it still has this limit.
>> > But it should be relatively safe to use it.
>> >
>> > http://marc.info/?l=ceph-devel&m=131942130322957&w=2
>> >
>> > If we hit the 4KB limit of xattrs in ext4 how does it show up in the rbd
>> > layer?
>> >
>> > How does it show up in the fs layer, would the fs still be clean?
>>
>> Right now it would show up very badly, unfortunately. (And yes, the
>> limit is still there.) You'd notice, though you might manage to
>> corrupt some of your data first. :/
>
> Well, the osd's are now more careful about being fail-stop, so if they hit
> the xattr limit they crash. So there won't be data corruption per se,
> except that you won't be able to start the OSD up again because the
> journal replay will keep hitting the limit.
Is that even merged for .38? I don't think anybody will get that until
our current master becomes .39...
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