On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:08 PM Jin Mao <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am running luminous and the objects were copied from Isilon with a long
> and similar prefix in path like /dir1/dir2/dir3/yyyy/mm/dd. The objects are
> copied to various buckets like bucket_YYYYMMDD/dir1/dir2/dir3/yyyy/mm/dd.
> This setup minimize some internal code change when moving from NFS to
> object store.
>
> I heard that CRUSH may NOT evenly balance OSDs if there are many common
> leading characters in the object name? However, I couldn't find any
> evidence to support this.
>
> Does anyone know further details about this?
>

CRUSH does use the object name as an input to generate a hashed value, but
it's not a stable hash and having common prefixes should not be an issue.

Also since you're going through RGW there's quite a bit more happening to
the object names, so I wouldn't worry about it.


>
> Thank you.
>
> Jin.
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