Re: [ceph-users] Efficient deletion of large radosgw buckets

2018-02-16 Thread Sean Purdy
Thanks David. > purging the objects and bypassing the GC is definitely the way to go Cool. > What rebalancing do you expect to see during this operation that you're > trying to avoid I think I just have a poor understanding or wasn't thinking very hard :) I suppose the question really was

Re: [ceph-users] Efficient deletion of large radosgw buckets

2018-02-15 Thread David Turner
Which is more important to you? Deleting the bucket fast or having the used space become available? If deleting the bucket fast is the priority, then you can swamp the GC by multithreading object deletion from the bucket with python or something. If having everything deleted and cleaned up from

[ceph-users] Efficient deletion of large radosgw buckets

2018-02-15 Thread Sean Purdy
Hi, I have a few radosgw buckets with millions or tens of millions of objects. I would like to delete these entire buckets. Is there a way to do this without ceph rebalancing as it goes along? Is there anything better than just doing: radosgw-admin bucket rm --bucket=test --purge-objects