On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:21 PM, nicolasc <nicolas.cance...@surfsara.nl> wrote: > Hi every one, > > The official doc for rbd mentions the "--stripe_count" and "--stripe_unit" > options. If I understand correctly, these allow "fancy striping" — i.e. > having multiple stripes in a single object. However, I tried and got an > error: > "unsupported stripe unit (got [my stripe unit] want 4194304)" > > It seems such behavior was introduced by a patch [1] in April. The message > from Alex Elder reads: "We don't yet support fancy striping fully" > > I wonder what "fully" means, and where is Ceph now on the road to "fully" > supporting fancy striping. Could anyone please enlighten me?
The kernel ceph clients (rbd and cephfs) don't support "fancy striping". Only user space client supports it. Yan, Zheng > > Best regards, > > Nicolas Canceill > Scalable Storage Systems > SURFsara (Amsterdam, NL) > > [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/ceph-devel/msg14160.html > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
