Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid

2015-03-23 Thread Nick Fisk
-Original Message- From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Brendan Moloney Sent: 23 March 2015 21:02 To: Noah Mehl Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid This would be in addition

Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid

2015-03-23 Thread Brendan Moloney
I have been looking at the options for SSD caching for a bit now. Here is my take on the current options: 1) bcache - Seems to have lots of reliability issues mentioned on mailing list with little sign of improvement. 2) flashcache - Seems to be no longer (or minimally?) developed/maintained,

Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid

2015-03-23 Thread Nick Fisk
@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid This would be in addition to having the journal on SSD. The journal doesn't help at all with small random reads and has a fairly limited ability to coalesce writes. In my case, the SSDs we are using for journals

Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid

2015-03-23 Thread Noah Mehl
We deployed with just putting the journal on an SSD directly, why would this not work for you? Just wondering really :) Thanks! ~Noah On Mar 23, 2015, at 4:36 PM, Brendan Moloney molo...@ohsu.edu wrote: I have been looking at the options for SSD caching for a bit now. Here is my take on

Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid

2015-03-23 Thread Brendan Moloney
get a little more out of them. -Brendan From: Noah Mehl [noahm...@combinedpublic.com] Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 1:45 PM To: Brendan Moloney Cc: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid We deployed

Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid

2015-03-23 Thread Noah Mehl
@lists.ceph.commailto:ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid This would be in addition to having the journal on SSD. The journal doesn't help at all with small random reads and has a fairly limited ability to coalesce writes. In my case, the SSDs we

Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid

2015-03-21 Thread Andrei Mikhailovsky
Subject: Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid We tested bcache and abandoned it for two reasons. 1. Didn't give us any better performance than journals on SSD. 2. We had lots of corruption of the OSDs and were rebuilding them frequently. Since removing them, the OSDs

Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid

2015-03-20 Thread Burkhard Linke
Hi, On 03/19/2015 10:41 PM, Nick Fisk wrote: I'm looking at trialling OSD's with a small flashcache device over them to hopefully reduce the impact of metadata updates when doing small block io. Inspiration from here:- http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ceph.devel/12083 One

Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid

2015-03-20 Thread Robert LeBlanc
, Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk wrote: -Original Message- From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Burkhard Linke Sent: 20 March 2015 09:09 To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid Hi

Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid

2015-03-20 Thread Nick Fisk
-Original Message- From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Burkhard Linke Sent: 20 March 2015 09:09 To: ceph-users@lists.ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid Hi, On 03/19/2015 10:41 PM, Nick Fisk wrote

[ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid

2015-03-19 Thread Nick Fisk
I'm looking at trialling OSD's with a small flashcache device over them to hopefully reduce the impact of metadata updates when doing small block io. Inspiration from here:- http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ceph.devel/12083 One thing I suspect will happen, is that when the OSD

Re: [ceph-users] OSD + Flashcache + udev + Partition uuid

2015-03-19 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Nick Fisk n...@fisk.me.uk wrote: I'm looking at trialling OSD's with a small flashcache device over them to hopefully reduce the impact of metadata updates when doing small block io. Inspiration from here:-