Scrub and resilver have nothing to so with defrag.

Scrub is scanning of all the data blocks in the pool to verify their checksums 
and parity to detect silent data corruption, and rewrite the bad blocks if 
necessary.

Resilver is reconstructing a failed disk onto a new disk using parity or mirror 
copies of all the blocks on the failed disk. This is similar to scrub.

Both scrub and resilver can be done online, though resilver of course requires 
a spare disk to rebuild onto, which may not be possible to add to a running 
system if your hardware does not support it.

Both of them do not "improve" the performance or layout of data on disk. They 
do impact performance because they cause a lot if random IO to the disks, 
though this impact can be limited by tunables on the pool.

Cheers, Andreas

On Jun 8, 2014, at 4:21, "Sean Brisbane" 
<s.brisba...@physics.ox.ac.uk<mailto:s.brisba...@physics.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:

Hi Scott,

We are considering running zfs backed lustre and the factor of 10ish 
performance hit you see worries me. I know zfs can splurge bits of files all 
over the place by design. The oracle docs do recommend scrubbing the volumes 
and keeping usage below 80% for maintenance and performance reasons, I'm going 
to call it 'defrag' but I'm sure someone who knows better will probably correct 
me as to why it is not the same.
So are these performance issues after scubbing and is it possible to scrub 
online - I.e. some reasonable level of performance is maintained while the 
scrub happens?
Resilvering is also recommended. Not sure if that is for performance reasons.

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1448/zfspools-4.html



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From: "Scott Nolin" 
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To: "Anjana Kar" <k...@psc.edu<mailto:k...@psc.edu>>, 
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Subject: [Lustre-discuss] number of inodes in zfs MDT
Date: Fri, Jun 6, 2014 3:23 AM



Looking at some of our existing zfs filesystems, we have a couple with zfs mdts

One has 103M inodes and uses 152G of MDT space, another 12M and 19G. I’d plan 
for less than that I guess as Mr. Dilger suggests. It all depends on your 
expected average file size and number of files for what will work.

We have run into some unpleasant surprises with zfs for the MDT, I believe 
mostly documented in bug reports, or at least hinted at.

A serious issue we have is performance of the zfs arc cache over time. This is 
something we didn’t see in early testing, but with enough use it grinds things 
to a crawl. I believe this may be addressed in the newer version of ZFS, which 
we’re hopefully awaiting.

Another thing we’ve seen, which is mysterious to me is this it appears hat as 
the MDT begins to fill up file create rates go down. We don’t really have a 
strong handle on this (not enough for a bug report I think), but we see this:


  1.
The aforementioned 104M inode / 152GB MDT system has 4 SAS drives raid10. On 
initial testing file creates were about 2500 to 3000 IOPs per second. Follow up 
testing in it’s current state (about half full..) shows them at about 500 IOPs 
now, but with a few iterations of mdtest those IOPs plummet quickly to 
unbearable levels (like 30…).
  2.
We took a snapshot of the filesystem and sent it to the backup MDS, this time 
with the MDT built on 4 SAS drives in a raid0 - really not for performance so 
much as “extra headroom” if that makes any sense. Testing this the IOPs started 
higher, at maybe 800 or 1000 (this is from memory, I don’t have my data in 
front of me). That initial faster speed could just be writing to 4 spindles I 
suppose, but surprising to me, the performance degraded at a slower rate. It 
took much longer to get painfully slow. It still got there. The performance 
didn’t degrade at the same rate if that makes sense - the same number of writes 
on the smaller/slower mdt degraded the performance more quickly.  My guess is 
that had something to do with the total space available. Who knows. I believe 
restarting lustre (and certainly rebooting) ‘resets the clock’ on the file 
create performance degradation.

For that problem we’re just going to try adding 4 SSD’s, but it’s an ugly 
problem. Also are once again hopeful new zfs version addresses it.

And finally, we’ve got a real concern with snapshot backups of the MDT that my 
colleague posted about - the problem we see manifests in essentially a 
read-only recovered file system, so it’s a concern and not quite terrifying.

All in all, the next lustre file system we bring up (in a couple weeks) we are 
very strongly considering going with ldiskfs for the MDT this time.

Scott








From: Anjana Kar<mailto:k...@psc.edu>
Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎June‎ ‎3‎, ‎2014 ‎7‎:‎38‎ ‎PM
To: lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org<mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org>

Is there a way to set the number of inodes for zfs MDT?

I've tried using --mkfsoptions="-N value" mentioned in lustre 2.0
manual, but it
fails to accept it. We are mirroring 2 80GB SSDs for the MDT, but the
number of
inodes is getting set to 7 million, which is not enough for a 100TB
filesystem.

Thanks in advance.

-Anjana Kar
  Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
  k...@psc.edu<mailto:k...@psc.edu>
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