Re: [ceph-users] cephfs and erasure coding

2017-03-29 Thread Konstantin Shalygin
My use case - from past ages /mail is block device for kvm vm. Now I need more space for messages, but I don't want use 3x raw space for replicas. What is your reccomendations? Create an RBD image on an erasure coded pools when a replicated pool tier set a cache tier? Thanks. On 03/30/2017

Re: [ceph-users] cephfs and erasure coding

2017-03-29 Thread Christian Balzer
Hello, On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 21:09:23 +0700 Konstantin Shalygin wrote: > Thanks for notice. On dovecot mail list reported > https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2016-August/105210.html about > success usage CephFS for 30-40k of users, with replica, not EC. > If you read that whole thread, you w

Re: [ceph-users] cephfs and erasure coding

2017-03-29 Thread Konstantin Shalygin
Thanks for notice. On dovecot mail list reported https://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2016-August/105210.html about success usage CephFS for 30-40k of users, with replica, not EC. On 03/29/2017 08:19 PM, Wido den Hollander wrote: I wouldn't use CephFS for so many small files. Dovecot will do

Re: [ceph-users] cephfs and erasure coding

2017-03-29 Thread Wido den Hollander
> Op 29 maart 2017 om 8:54 schreef Konstantin Shalygin : > > > Hello. > > How your tests? I'm looking for CephFS with EC for save space on > replicas for many small files (dovecot mailboxes). I wouldn't use CephFS for so many small files. Dovecot will do a lot of locking, opening en closing

[ceph-users] cephfs and erasure coding

2017-03-28 Thread Konstantin Shalygin
Hello. How your tests? I'm looking for CephFS with EC for save space on replicas for many small files (dovecot mailboxes). Thanks everyone for the input. We are online in our test environment and are running user workflows to make sure everything is running as expected. ___

Re: [ceph-users] cephfs and erasure coding

2017-03-09 Thread Rhian Resnick
Guyot Cc: ceph-us...@ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] cephfs and erasure coding Thanks for the confirmations of what is possible. We plan on creating a new file system, rsync and delete the old one. Rhian On Mar 9, 2017 2:27 AM, Maxime Guyot mailto:maxime.gu...@elits.com>> wrote: Hi,

Re: [ceph-users] cephfs and erasure coding

2017-03-09 Thread Rhian Resnick
m: ceph-users on behalf of David Turner Date: Wednesday 8 March 2017 22:27 To: Rhian Resnick , "ceph-us...@ceph.com" Subject: Re: [ceph-users] cephfs and erasure coding I use CephFS on erasure coding at home using a cache tier. It works fine for my use case, but we know nothing abo

Re: [ceph-users] cephfs and erasure coding

2017-03-08 Thread Maxime Guyot
he-mode cachepool writeback” and let Ceph redirect the requests (CephFS or other) to the cache pool? Cheers, Maxime From: ceph-users on behalf of David Turner Date: Wednesday 8 March 2017 22:27 To: Rhian Resnick , "ceph-us...@ceph.com" Subject: Re: [ceph-users] cephfs and erasure codi

Re: [ceph-users] cephfs and erasure coding

2017-03-08 Thread David Turner
ying of this message is prohibited. From: ceph-users [ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] on behalf of Rhian Resnick [rresn...@fau.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2017 12:54 PM To: ceph-us...@ceph.com Subject: [ceph-users] cephfs and er

Re: [ceph-users] cephfs and erasure coding

2017-03-08 Thread John Spray
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 7:54 PM, Rhian Resnick wrote: > Two questions on Cephfs and erasure coding that Google couldn't answer. > > > > 1) How well does cephfs work with erasure coding? > In the current released versions, you cannot use erasure coded pools with CephFS, unless there is a replicate

[ceph-users] cephfs and erasure coding

2017-03-08 Thread Rhian Resnick
Two questions on Cephfs and erasure coding that Google couldn't answer. 1) How well does cephfs work with erasure coding? 2) How would you move an existing cephfs pool that uses replication to erasure coding? Rhian Resnick Assistant Director Middleware and HPC Office of Information Techno