[ceph-users] OSD block device performance

2014-02-06 Thread John Mancuso
Hey all, I'm currently pouring through the ceph docs trying to familiarize myself with the product before I begin my cluster build-out for a virtualized environment. One area which I've been looking into is disk throughput/performance. I stumbled onto the following site:

Re: [ceph-users] OSD block device performance

2014-02-06 Thread John Spray
Hi John, The 50/50 thing comes from the way the Ceph OSD writes data twice: first to the journal, and then subsequently to the data partition. The write doubling may not affect your performance outcome, depending on the ratio of drive bandwidth to network bandwidth and the I/O pattern. In