Actually, with last Igor patches default min alloc size for hdd is 4K


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> On 2 Feb 2021, at 13:12, Gilles Mocellin <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> As we know, with 64k for bluestore_min_alloc_size_hdd (I'm only using HDDs),
> in certain conditions, especially with erasure coding,
> there's a leak of space while writing objects smaller than 64k x k (EC:k+m).
> 
> Every object is divided in k elements, written on different OSD.
> 
> My main use case is big (40TB) RBD images mounted as XFS filesystems on Linux 
> servers,
> exposed to our backup software.
> So, it's mainly big files.
> 
> My though, but I'd like some other point of view, is that I could deal with 
> the amplification by using bigger block sizes on my XFS filesystems.
> Instead of reducing bluestore_min_alloc_size_hdd on all OSDs.
> 
> What do you think ?
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