On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 02:35, Andre Noll <[email protected]> wrote: > I was under the impression that equal weights on all osds means to > fill up all file systems by the same percentage, i.e. that file system > sizes are already taken care of. > > But apparently this is not the case. So one has to set the weights > manually according to the available disk space.
The weight is actually a combination of all the factors that would go in: storage size, disk IO speed, network link bandwidth, heat in that part of the data center, future expansion plans, .. We could automate more of it, but it really is a fundamentally holistic number, and setting it based on just one aspect of reality will lead to someone else being unhappy. So it goes something like this: Step 1: improve documentation Step 2: have a monitoring system be able to feed back information to use as osd weights, with admin customazability -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
