Gregory, Thank you for taking the time to lay out this information.
-David On 10/8/21 1:34 PM, Gregory Farnum wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 6:44 AM David Prude <da...@democracynow.org> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> My apologies if this has been answered previously but by attempt to >> find an answer have failed me. I am trying to determine the canonical >> manner for determining how much storage space a cephfs snapshot is >> consuming. It seems that you can determine the size of the referenced >> data by pulling the ceph.dir.rbytes attribute for the the snap >> directory, however there does not seem to be an attribute which >> indicates the storage the snapshot it's self is consuming: >> >> getfattr -d -m - daily_2021-10-07_191702 >> # file: daily_2021-10-07_191702 >> ceph.dir.entries="17" >> ceph.dir.files="0" >> ceph.dir.rbytes="6129426031788" >> ceph.dir.rctime="1633653849.686409000" >> ceph.dir.rentries="132588" >> ceph.dir.rfiles="97679" >> ceph.dir.rsubdirs="34909" >> ceph.dir.subdirs="17" > Yeah. Because all the allocations are handled by OSDs, and the OSDs > and the MDS don't communicate about individual objects, the > per-snapshot size differential is not actually tracked. Doing so is > infeasible — it's known only by the OSD and potentially changes on > every write to the live data, which is far too much communication to > make happen while keeping any of these systems functional. > >> I have found in the documentation references to the command "ceph fs >> subvolume snapshot info" which should be able to give snapshot size in >> bytes for a snapshot of a subvolume, however we are not using >> subvolumes. > I am reasonably sure this doesn't do what you seem to want, either — I > think it's just plugging in the rbytes value (much of the subvolume > API exists so it can plug in to the OpenStack Manila interfaces). > >> If we assume a cephfs volume "volume" with a top-level >> directory "directory" and an associated snapshot "snapshot": >> >> volume/directory/.snap/snapshot >> >> What is the best way to determine the size consumed by snapshot? > If you really, REALLY need this, the only approach I can come up with > is to traverse the snapshot and the live tree and identify changed > files, and use some heuristic to guess about how much of the data is > actually changed between them. > > But the basic problem is that data usage frequently doesn't belong to > a snapshot, it belongs to a SET of snapshots, so even if we did the > data gathering, we can't partition it out between them. If for > instance your data flow looks like this: > AAAA > -- snapshot 1 > BBBB > -- snapshot 2 > -- snapshot 3 > -- snapshot 4 > CCCC > -- snapshot 5 > > Then you might say that snapshot 2 is size 4 and snapshots 3 and 4 are > size 0. But if you delete snapshot 2, you can't actually remove BBBB, > because it's required for snapshots 3 and 4. > -Greg > >> Thank you, >> >> -David >> >> >> -- >> David Prude >> Systems Administrator >> PGP Fingerprint: 1DAA 4418 7F7F B8AA F50C 6FDF C294 B58F A286 F847 >> Democracy Now! >> www.democracynow.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io >> To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io -- David Prude Systems Administrator PGP Fingerprint: 1DAA 4418 7F7F B8AA F50C 6FDF C294 B58F A286 F847 Democracy Now! www.democracynow.org _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@ceph.io To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-le...@ceph.io
