Thanks Ilya for this clear explanation!
I'm searching that for a long time

Best practices is to have pg = pgp in order to "avoid" using of the same set of 
osd right ? (On a small cluster you will have)

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> On 21 mai 2015, at 07:49, Ilya Dryomov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 12:12 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> Re: what's the difference between pg and pgp?
> 
> pg-num is the number of PGs, pgp-num is the number of PGs that will be
> considered for placement, i.e. it's the pgp-num value that is used by
> CRUSH, not pg-num.  For example, consider pg-num = 1024 and pgp-num
> = 1.  In that case you will see 1024 PGs but all of those PGs will map
> to the same set of OSDs.
> 
> When you increase pg-num you are splitting PGs, when you increase
> pgp-num you are moving them, i.e. changing sets of OSDs they map to.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>                Ilya
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