Re: [ceph-users] Best way to reformat OSD drives?

2013-09-03 Thread Jens-Christian Fischer
Why wait for the data to migrate away? Normally you have replicas of the whole osd data, so you can simply stop the osd, reformat the disk and restart it again. It'll join the cluster and automatically get all data it's missing. Of course the risk of dataloss is a bit higher during that

Re: [ceph-users] Best way to reformat OSD drives?

2013-09-03 Thread Sage Weil
On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, Jens-Christian Fischer wrote: Hi all we have a Ceph Cluster with 64 OSD drives in 10 servers. We originally formatted the OSDs with btrfs but have had numerous problems (server kernel panics) that we could point back to btrfs. We are therefore in the process of

Re: [ceph-users] Best way to reformat OSD drives?

2013-09-03 Thread Jens-Christian Fischer
On 03.09.2013, at 16:27, Sage Weil s...@inktank.com wrote: ceph osd create # this should give you back the same osd number as the one you just removed OSD=`ceph osd create` # may or may not be the same osd id good point - so far it has been good to us! umount ${PART}1 parted $PART

[ceph-users] Best way to reformat OSD drives?

2013-09-02 Thread Jens-Christian Fischer
Hi all we have a Ceph Cluster with 64 OSD drives in 10 servers. We originally formatted the OSDs with btrfs but have had numerous problems (server kernel panics) that we could point back to btrfs. We are therefore in the process of reformatting our OSDs to XFS. We have a process that works,

Re: [ceph-users] Best way to reformat OSD drives?

2013-09-02 Thread Corin Langosch
Am 02.09.2013 11:37, schrieb Jens-Christian Fischer: we have a Ceph Cluster with 64 OSD drives in 10 servers. We originally formatted the OSDs with btrfs but have had numerous problems (server kernel panics) that we could point back to btrfs. We are therefore in the process of reformatting our

Re: [ceph-users] Best way to reformat OSD drives?

2013-09-02 Thread Martin Rudat
Hi Jens, On 2013-09-02 19:37, Jens-Christian Fischer wrote: we have a Ceph Cluster with 64 OSD drives in 10 servers. We originally formatted the OSDs with btrfs but have had numerous problems (server kernel panics) that we could point back to btrfs. We are therefore in the process of

Re: [ceph-users] Best way to reformat OSD drives?

2013-09-02 Thread Jens-Christian Fischer
Why wait for the data to migrate away? Normally you have replicas of the whole osd data, so you can simply stop the osd, reformat the disk and restart it again. It'll join the cluster and automatically get all data it's missing. Of course the risk of dataloss is a bit higher during that

Re: [ceph-users] Best way to reformat OSD drives?

2013-09-02 Thread Jens-Christian Fischer
Hi Martin On 2013-09-02 19:37, Jens-Christian Fischer wrote: we have a Ceph Cluster with 64 OSD drives in 10 servers. We originally formatted the OSDs with btrfs but have had numerous problems (server kernel panics) that we could point back to btrfs. We are therefore in the process of