hi jason,

i got it. thank you!
i have a questions about the thin provisioning, suppose Ceph should be
using thin provisioning by default, but how come the rbd du command show
the disk usage is almost 19G for a 20G allocation, as when i use the expert
to a .img from ceph to external local disk, it's about 4G image only, and
the OS actually is about 1-2G if provisioned via local disk by using qcow2
format.
any comments or ideas?

thank you!

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Jason Dillaman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> The way to interpret that output is that the HEAD revision of "CentOS3"
> has about a 700MB delta from the previous snapshot (i.e. 700MB + 18G are
> used by this image and its snapshot).  There probably should be an option
> in the rbd CLI to generate the full usage for a particular image and all of
> its snapshots.  Right now the only way to do that is to perform a du on the
> whole pool.
>
> --
>
> Jason Dillaman
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> > From: "Bill WONG" <[email protected]>
> > To: "Mihai Gheorghe" <[email protected]>
> > Cc: "ceph-users" <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 6:17:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Ceph + Libvirt + QEMU-KVM
>
> > Hi Mihai,
>
> > it looks rather strange in ceph snapshot, the size of snapshot is bigger
> than
> > the size of original images..
> > Original Image actual used size is 684M w/ provisioned 20G
> > but the snapshot actual used size is ~18G w/ provisioned 20G
>
> > any ideas?
>
> > ==
> > [root@compute2 ~]# rbd du CentOS3 -p storage1
> > warning: fast-diff map is not enabled for CentOS3. operation may be slow.
> > NAME PROVISIONED USED
> > CentOS3 20480M 684M
>
> > [root@compute2 ~]# rbd du CentOS3@snap1 -p storage1
> > warning: fast-diff map is not enabled for CentOS3. operation may be slow.
> > NAME PROVISIONED USED
> > CentOS3@snap1 20480M 18124M
> > ==
> > qemu-img info rbd:storage1/CentOS3
> > image: rbd:storage1/CentOS3
> > file format: raw
> > virtual size: 20G (21474836480 bytes)
> > disk size: unavailable
> > cluster_size: 4194304
> > Snapshot list:
> > ID TAG VM SIZE DATE VM CLOCK
> > snap1 snap1 20G 1970-01-01 08:00:00 00:00:00.000
>
> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:09 PM, Mihai Gheorghe < [email protected] >
> wrote:
>
> > > As far as i know, snapshotting with qemu will download a copy of the
> image
> > > on
> > > local storage and then upload it into ceph. At least this is the
> default
> > > behaviour when taking a snapshot in openstack of a running instance. I
> > > don't
> > > see why it would be any different with qemu-kvm. You must use the rbd
> snap
> > > feature to make a copy on write clone of the image.
> >
> > > On 28 Jan 2016 12:59, "Bill WONG" < [email protected] > wrote:
> >
>
> > > > Hi Simon,
> > >
> >
>
> > > > how you manage to preform snapshot with the raw format in qemu-kvm
> VMs?
> > >
> >
> > > > and i found some issues with libvirt virsh commands with ceph:
> > >
> >
> > > > --
> > >
> >
> > > > 1) create storage pool with ceph via virsh
> > >
> >
> > > > 2) create a vol via virsh - virsh vol-create-as rbdpool VM1 100G
> > >
> >
>
> > > > problem is here.. if we directly create vol via qemu-img create -f
> rbd
> > > > rbd:rbdpool/VM1 100G, then virsh is unable to find the vol. - virsh
> > > > vol-list
> > > > rbdpool command is unable to list the vol, it looks such commands -
> rbd,
> > > > virsh and qemu-img creating images are not synced with each other...
> > >
> >
>
> > > > cloud you please let me know how you use the ceph as backend storage
> of
> > > > qemu-kvm, as if i google it, most of the ceph application is used for
> > > > OpenStack, but not simply pure qemu-kvm. as if setting up Glnace and
> > > > Cinder
> > > > is troublesome...
> > >
> >
>
> > > > thank you!
> > >
> >
>
> > > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Simon Ironside <
> [email protected]
> > > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > >
> >
>
> > > > > On 28/01/16 08:30, Bill WONG wrote:
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
> > > > > > without having qcow2, the qemu-kvm cannot make snapshot and other
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> > > > > > features.... anyone have ideas or experiences on this?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> > > > > > thank you!
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
> > > > > I'm using raw too and create snapshots using "rbd snap create"
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > >
> >
> > > > > Simon
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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