On Thu, 12 Jun 2014, Charles 'Boyo wrote:
> Hello list.
> 
> Is it possible, or will it ever be possible to disable the OSD's 
> journalling activity?
> 
> I understand it is risky and has the potential for data loss but in my 
> use case, the data is easily re-built from scratch and I'm really 
> bothered about the reduced throughput "wasted" on journalling.

We are investigating alternative backends that do not require the journal. 
There are also half-baked plans to avoid the double-writes when running on 
btrfs.  You definitely do not want to disable the journal or stick it on a 
ramdisk for ext4/xfs, though, or you will corrupt the OSD's data on crash.

sage
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