I did exactly this when creating my osds, and found that my total
utilization is about the same as the sum of the utilization of the pools,
plus (wal size * number osds).  So it looks like my wals are actually
sharing OSDs.  But I'd like to be 100% sure... so I am seeking a way to
find out

On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 11:13 AM Serkan Çoban <cobanser...@gmail.com> wrote:

> wal and db device will be same if you use just db path during osd
> creation. i do not know how to verify this with ceph commands.
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 4:17 PM Robert Stanford <rstanford8...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Thanks Serkan.  I am using --path instead of --dev (dev won't work
> because I'm using VGs/LVs).  The output shows block and block.db, but
> nothing about wal.db.  How can I learn where my wal lives?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 12:43 AM Serkan Çoban <cobanser...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> ceph-bluestore-tool can show you the disk labels.
> >> ceph-bluestore-tool show-label --dev /dev/sda1
> >> On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 1:29 AM Robert Stanford <
> rstanford8...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >  An email from this list stated that the wal would be created in the
> same place as the db, if the db were specified when running ceph-volume lvm
> create, and the db were specified on that command line.  I followed those
> instructions and like the other person writing to this list today, I was
> surprised to find that my cluster usage was higher than the total of pools
> (higher by an amount the same as all my wal sizes on each node combined).
> This leads me to think my wal actually is on the data disk and not the ssd
> I specified the db should go to.
> >> >
> >> >  How can I verify which disk the wal is on, from the command line?
> I've searched the net and not come up with anything.
> >> >
> >> >  Thanks and regards
> >> >  R
> >> >
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