Re: 2.6.34 soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s!

2010-06-11 Thread Matt Weil
Yehuda Sadeh Weinraub wrote: That usually happens when there's some pending request that waits too long. It's really hard to tell what exactly happened from this log as for some reason we don't see the expected backtrace. Thanks for the response. was just cp'n some files into a ceph volume.

Re: Using other filesystems than btrfs with Ceph

2010-06-11 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Peter Niemayer niema...@isg.de wrote: Is there some documentation/discussion on the pro's and con's of using other filesystems with Ceph? Unfortunately, I can't seem to find anything. Also, the documentation in the Wiki does not mention what would need to be

Re: Using other filesystems than btrfs with Ceph

2010-06-11 Thread Sage Weil
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Gregory Farnum wrote: That said, btrfs is most beneficial when you engage in snapshotting, or have to handle recoveries. Ceph makes use of a number of ioctls to ensure consistency and provide speed when running on btrfs; on other filesystems snapshots will be much slower,

Re: Using other filesystems than btrfs with Ceph

2010-06-11 Thread Peter Niemayer
On 06/11/2010 06:26 PM, Gregory Farnum wrote: Also, the documentation in the Wiki does not mention what would need to be configured differently if another filesystem was to be used - what would I have to use instead of btrfs devs = /dev/sdy? You can look at the ceph.conf file produced by the

Re: Using other filesystems than btrfs with Ceph

2010-06-11 Thread Peter Niemayer
On 06/11/2010 06:40 PM, Sage Weil wrote: The btrfs isn't required for consistency if the writeahead journal is enabled (which it is by default). However, at the moment the code that controls trimming the journal assumes ext3 data=ordered fsync semantics (fsync flushes the entire journal and all

Re: Using other filesystems than btrfs with Ceph

2010-06-11 Thread Sage Weil
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Peter Niemayer wrote: On 06/11/2010 06:40 PM, Sage Weil wrote: The btrfs isn't required for consistency if the writeahead journal is enabled (which it is by default). However, at the moment the code that controls trimming the journal assumes ext3 data=ordered fsync

Re: [PATCH] ceph/rbd block driver for qemu-kvm (v3)

2010-06-11 Thread Simone Gotti
Hi Christian, thanks for you patch. I tried it a little and it worked quite well but during some live migration tests I noticed a problem. The problem is related to live migration with high I/O using the AIO calls (I triggered it with a simple dd). If you launch a live migration and the guest

Re: Correct proceedure for removing ceph nodes

2010-06-11 Thread Sage Weil
Hi Paul, On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Paul wrote: Hiding the details of the id number sequence from the user seems like a great idea. Havn't seen any serious problems while running the mon-remove branch. A few minor ones: 1. the mkcephfs and init scripts need a bit of tweaking to parse the new