My understanding is that all reads are copied to the cache pool. This would
indicate that cache will be evicted. I don't know to what extent this will
affect the hot cache because we have not used a cache pool yet. I'm
currently looking into bcache fronting the disks to provide caching there.

Robert LeBlanc


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Andrei Mikhailovsky <and...@arhont.com>
wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
> I am planning to perform regular rbd pool off-site backup with rbd export
> and export-diff. I've got a small ceph firefly cluster with an active
> writeback cache pool made of couple of osds. I've got the following
> question which I hope the ceph community could answer:
>
> Will this rbd export or import operations affect the active hot data in
> the cache pool, thus evicting from the cache pool the real hot data used by
> the clients. Or does the process of rbd export/import effect only the osds
> and does not touch the cache pool?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Andrei
>
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