Re: [ceph-users] how to upgrade CEPH journal?

2017-11-10 Thread Caspar Smit
2017-11-09 17:52 GMT+01:00 Rudi Ahlers : > Hi Caspar, > > Is this in the [global] or [osd] section of ceph.conf? > > I've put it in the [global] section but it could be that it belongs in the [osd], the parameter is not really documented for that matter. > I am new to

Re: [ceph-users] how to upgrade CEPH journal?

2017-11-10 Thread Alwin Antreich
On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 05:38:46PM +0100, Caspar Smit wrote: > 2017-11-09 17:02 GMT+01:00 Alwin Antreich : > > > Hi Rudi, > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 04:09:04PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Can someone please tell me what the correct procedure is to

Re: [ceph-users] how to upgrade CEPH journal?

2017-11-10 Thread Alwin Antreich
Hi Rudi, On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 06:52:04PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi Caspar, > > Is this in the [global] or [osd] section of ceph.conf? Set it in the global section. > > I am new to ceph so this is all still very vague to me. > What is the difference betwen the WAL and the DB?

Re: [ceph-users] how to upgrade CEPH journal?

2017-11-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi Caspar, Is this in the [global] or [osd] section of ceph.conf? I am new to ceph so this is all still very vague to me. What is the difference betwen the WAL and the DB? And, lastly, if I want to setup the OSD in Proxmox beforehand and add the journal to it, can I make these changes

Re: [ceph-users] how to upgrade CEPH journal?

2017-11-09 Thread Richard Hesketh
Please bear in mind that unless you've got a very good reason for separating the WAL/DB into two partitions (i.e. you are testing/debugging and want to observe their behaviour separately or they're actually going to go on different devices which have different speeds) you should probably stick

Re: [ceph-users] how to upgrade CEPH journal?

2017-11-09 Thread Caspar Smit
2017-11-09 17:02 GMT+01:00 Alwin Antreich : > Hi Rudi, > On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 04:09:04PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Can someone please tell me what the correct procedure is to upgrade a > CEPH > > journal? > > > > I'm running ceph: 12.2.1 on Proxmox 5.1,

Re: [ceph-users] how to upgrade CEPH journal?

2017-11-09 Thread Caspar Smit
Rudi, You can set the size of block.db and block.wal partitions in the ceph.conf configuration file using: bluestore_block_db_size = 16106127360 (which is 15GB, just calculate the correct number for your needs) bluestore_block_wal_size = 16106127360 Kind regards, Caspar 2017-11-09 17:19

Re: [ceph-users] how to upgrade CEPH journal?

2017-11-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi Alwin, Thanx for the help. I see now that I used the wrong wording in my email. I want to resize the journal, not upgrade. So, following your commands, I still sit with a 1GB journal: oot@virt1:~# ceph-disk prepare --bluestore \ > --block.db /dev/sde --block.wal /dev/sde1 /dev/sda Setting

Re: [ceph-users] how to upgrade CEPH journal?

2017-11-09 Thread Alwin Antreich
Hi Rudi, On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 04:09:04PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone please tell me what the correct procedure is to upgrade a CEPH > journal? > > I'm running ceph: 12.2.1 on Proxmox 5.1, which runs on Debian 9.1 > > For a journal I have a 400GB Intel SSD drive and it seems