On 1/2/19 10:43 pm, Alfredo Deza wrote: >>> I think mounting tmpfs for something that should be persistent is highly >>> dangerous. Is there some flag I should be using when creating the >>> BlueStore OSD to avoid that issue? >> >> The tmpfs setup is expected. All persistent data for bluestore OSDs >> setup with LVM are stored in LVM metadata. The LVM/udev handler for >> bluestore volumes create these tmpfs filesystems on the fly and populate >> them with the information from the metadata. > That is mostly what happens. There isn't a dependency on UDEV anymore > (yay), but the reason why files are mounted on tmpfs > is because *bluestore* spits them out on activation, this makes the > path fully ephemeral (a great thing!) > > The step-by-step is documented in this summary section of 'activate' > http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/ceph-volume/lvm/activate/#summary > > Filestore doesn't have any of these capabilities and it is why it does > have an actual existing path (vs. tmpfs), and the files come from the > data partition that > gets mounted. >
Well, for whatever reason, ceph-osd isn't calling the activate script before it starts up. It is worth noting that the systems I'm using do not use systemd out of simplicity. I might need to write an init script to do that. It wasn't clear last weekend what commands I needed to run to activate a BlueStore OSD. For now though, sounds like tarring up the data directory, unmounting the tmpfs then unpacking the tar is a good-enough work-around. That's what I've done for my second node (now I know of the problem) and so it should survive a reboot now. The only other two steps were to ensure `lvm` was marked to start at boot (so it would bring up all the volume groups) and that there was a UDEV rule in place to set the ownership on the LVM VGs for Ceph. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
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