My understanding is that the exact same objects would move back to the OSD
if weight went 1 -> 0 -> 1 given the same Cluster state and same object
names, CRUSH is deterministic so that would be the almost certain result.

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 2:46 PM, lists <li...@merit.unu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Wes,
>
> On 15-1-2018 20:32, Wes Dillingham wrote:
>
>> I dont hear a lot of people discuss using xfs_fsr on OSDs and going over
>> the mailing list history it seems to have been brought up very infrequently
>> and never as a suggestion for regular maintenance. Perhaps its not needed.
>>
> True, it's just something we've always done on all our xfs filesystems, to
> keep them speedy and snappy. I've disabled it, and then it doesn't happen.
>
> Perhaps I'll keep it disabled.
>
> But on this last question, about data distribution across OSDs:
>
>     In that case, how about reweighting that osd.10 to "0", wait until
>>     all data has moved off osd.10, and then setting it back to "1".
>>     Would this result in *exactly* the same situation as before, or
>>     would it at least cause the data to have spread move better across
>>     the other OSDs?
>>
>
> Would it work like that? Or would setting it back to "1" give me again the
> same data on this OSD that we started with?
>
> Thanks for your comments,
>
> MJ
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Respectfully,

Wes Dillingham
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Research Computing | Senior CyberInfrastructure Storage Engineer
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