thanks Gregory

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Gregory Farnum <gfar...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Friday, October 30, 2015, mad Engineer <themadengin...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> i am learning ceph,block storage and read that each object size is 4 Mb.I
>> am not clear about the concepts of object storage still what will happen if
>> the actual size of data written to block is less than 4 Mb lets say 1
>> Mb.Will it still create object with 4 mb size and keep the rest of the
>> space free and unusable?
>>
>
> No, it will only take up as much space as you write (plus some metadata).
> Although I think RBD passes down io hints suggesting the object's final
> size will be 4MB so that the underlying storage (eg xfs) can prevent
> fragmentation.
> -Greg
>
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