[ceph-users] Re: how to set load balance on multi active mds?

2023-08-11 Thread Milind Changire
You might want to read up https://docs.ceph.com/en/pacific/cephfs/multimds/ The page contains info on dir pinning and related policies. On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 12:11 PM Eugen Block wrote: > > Okay, you didn't mention that in your initial question. There was an > interesting talk [3] at the

[ceph-users] Re: how to set load balance on multi active mds?

2023-08-10 Thread Eugen Block
Okay, you didn't mention that in your initial question. There was an interesting talk [3] at the Cephalocon in Amsterdam about an approach to combine dynamic and static pinning. But I don't know what the current status is. Regarding tuning options for the existing balancer I would hope

[ceph-users] Re: how to set load balance on multi active mds?

2023-08-09 Thread zxcs
Thanks a lot, Eugen! we are using dynamic subtree pinning, we have another cluster using manual pinning, but we have many directory , and we need pin each dir for each request. so in our new cluster, we want to try dynamic subtree pinning. we don’t want to human kick in every time. Because

[ceph-users] Re: how to set load balance on multi active mds?

2023-08-09 Thread Eugen Block
Hi, you could benefit from directory pinning [1] or dynamic subtree pinning [2]. We had great results with manual pinning in an older Nautilus cluster, didn't have a chance to test the dynamic subtree pinning yet though. It's difficult to tell in advance which option would suit best your