Re: [ceph-users] Thick provisioning

2017-10-18 Thread Adrian Saul
nes though. > -Original Message- > From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of > si...@turka.nl > Sent: Thursday, 19 October 2017 6:41 AM > To: Samuel Soulard > Cc: ceph-users > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Thick provisioning > > Hi all, >

Re: [ceph-users] Thick provisioning

2017-10-18 Thread sinan
Hi all, Thanks for the replies. The main reason why I was looking for the thin/thick provisioning setting is that I want to be sure that provisioned space should not exceed the cluster capacity. With thin provisioning there is a risk that more space is provisioned than the cluster capacity. When

Re: [ceph-users] Thick provisioning

2017-10-18 Thread Samuel Soulard
I can only speak for some environments, but sometimes, you would want to make sure that a cluster cannot fill up until you can add more capacity. Some organizations are unable to purchase new capacity rapidly and making sure you cannot exceed your current capacity, then you can't run into problems

Re: [ceph-users] Thick provisioning

2017-10-17 Thread Wido den Hollander
> Op 17 oktober 2017 om 19:38 schreef Jason Dillaman : > > > There is no existing option to thick provision images within RBD. When > an image is created or cloned, the only actions that occur are some > small metadata updates to describe the image. This allows image > creation to be a quick, co

Re: [ceph-users] Thick provisioning

2017-10-17 Thread Jason Dillaman
There is no existing option to thick provision images within RBD. When an image is created or cloned, the only actions that occur are some small metadata updates to describe the image. This allows image creation to be a quick, constant time operation regardless of the image size. To thick provision

[ceph-users] Thick provisioning

2017-10-16 Thread sinan
Hi, I have deployed a Ceph cluster (Jewel). By default all block devices that are created are thin provisioned. Is it possible to change this setting? I would like to have that all created block devices are thick provisioned. In front of the Ceph cluster, I am running Openstack. Thanks! Sinan