Hi Oleg,

On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, Oleg Krasnianskiy wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have asked this question in ceph-users, but did not get any
> response, so I'll test my luck again, but with ceph-devel =)

Sorry about that!
 
> Is there any way to copy part of one object into another one if they
> reside in different pgs?
> There is rados_clone_range, but it requires both objects to be inside one pg.

There is no way currently.  The clone_range can only (reliably) work on an 
OSD if it is stored with the same locator key; otherwise you have a ~R/N 
chance of that happening (where N is the number of OSDs, R is the number 
of replicas), which isn't worth optimizing for.  If the objects aren't 
stored together, you need to read and then write the data; this avoids 
adding additional complexity to the OSD for minimal gain.

Do you have a use-case in mind where this functionality is important?

sage

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