Re: [ceph-users] No more Journals ?

2014-03-15 Thread Alexandre DERUMIER
amedi 15 Mars 2014 19:07:56 Objet: Re: [ceph-users] No more Journals ? Hello Everyone If you see ceph day presentation delivered by Sebastien ( slide number 23 ) http://www.slideshare.net/Inktank_Ceph/ceph-performance It looks like Firefly has dropped support to Journals , How concrete is th

Re: [ceph-users] No more Journals ?

2014-03-15 Thread Karan Singh
Hello Everyone If you see ceph day presentation delivered by Sebastien ( slide number 23 ) http://www.slideshare.net/Inktank_Ceph/ceph-performance It looks like Firefly has dropped support to Journals , How concrete is this news ??? -Karan- On 14 Mar 2014, at 15:35, Jake Young wrote: >

Re: [ceph-users] No more Journals ?

2014-03-14 Thread Michael J. Kidd
Journals will default to being on-disk with the OSD if there is nothing specified on the ceph-deploy line. If you have a separate journal device, then you should specify it per the original example syntax. Michael J. Kidd Sr. Storage Consultant Inktank Professional Services On Fri, Mar 14, 2014

Re: [ceph-users] No more Journals ?

2014-03-14 Thread Jake Young
You should take a look at this blog post: http://ceph.com/community/ceph-performance-part-2-write-throughput-without-ssd-journals/ The test results shows that using a RAID card with a write-back cache without journal disks can perform better or equivalent to using journal disks with XFS. *As to

Re: [ceph-users] No more Journals ?

2014-03-14 Thread Markus Goldberg
Sorry, i should have asked a little bit clearer: Can ceph (or OSDs) be used without journals now ? The Journal-Parameter seems to be optional ( because of '[...]' ) Markus Am 14.03.2014 12:19, schrieb John Spray: Journals have not gone anywhere, and ceph-deploy still supports specifying them wit

Re: [ceph-users] No more Journals ?

2014-03-14 Thread John Spray
Journals have not gone anywhere, and ceph-deploy still supports specifying them with exactly the same syntax as before. The page you're looking at is the simplified "quick start", the detail on osd creation including journals is here: http://eu.ceph.com/docs/v0.77/rados/deployment/ceph-deploy-osd/

[ceph-users] No more Journals ?

2014-03-14 Thread Markus Goldberg
Hi, i'm a little bit surprised. I read through the new manuals of 0.77 (http://eu.ceph.com/docs/v0.77/start/quick-ceph-deploy/) In the section of creating the osd the manual says: /Then, from your admin node, use //ceph-deploy//to prepare the OSDs./ // /ceph-deploy osd prepare {ceph-node}:/pa