Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs

2015-06-30 Thread Jan Schermer
... Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs Date:Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:06:33 +0200 From:Burkhard Linke burkhard.li...@computational.bio.uni-giessen.de mailto:burkhard.li...@computational.bio.uni-giessen.de To: Lionel

Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs

2015-06-23 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Erik Logtenberg e...@logtenberg.eu wrote: Thanks! Just so I understand correctly, the btrfs snapshots are mainly useful if the journals are on the same disk as the osd, right? Is it indeed safe to turn them off if the journals are on a separate ssd? That's

Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs

2015-06-23 Thread Erik Logtenberg
Thanks! Just so I understand correctly, the btrfs snapshots are mainly useful if the journals are on the same disk as the osd, right? Is it indeed safe to turn them off if the journals are on a separate ssd? Kind regards, Erik. On 22-06-15 20:18, Krzysztof Nowicki wrote: pon., 22.06.2015 o

Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs

2015-06-23 Thread Gregory Farnum
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Lionel Bouton lionel-subscript...@bouton.name wrote: On 06/23/15 11:43, Gregory Farnum wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Erik Logtenberg e...@logtenberg.eu wrote: Thanks! Just so I understand correctly, the btrfs snapshots are mainly useful if the

Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs

2015-06-22 Thread Lionel Bouton
On 06/22/15 17:21, Erik Logtenberg wrote: I have the journals on a separate disk too. How do you disable the snapshotting on the OSD? http://ceph.com/docs/master/rados/configuration/filestore-config-ref/ : filestore btrfs snap = false ___ ceph-users

Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs

2015-06-22 Thread Krzysztof Nowicki
...@bouton.name wrote: On 06/19/15 13:42, Burkhard Linke wrote: Forget the reply to the list... Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:06:33 +0200 From: Burkhard Linke burkhard.li

Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs

2015-06-22 Thread Lionel Bouton
On 06/19/15 13:23, Erik Logtenberg wrote: I believe this may be the same issue I reported some time ago, which is as of yet unsolved. https://www.mail-archive.com/ceph-users@lists.ceph.com/msg19770.html I used strace to figure out that the OSD's were doing an incredible amount of getxattr,

Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs

2015-06-22 Thread Lionel Bouton
On 06/22/15 11:27, Jan Schermer wrote: I don’t run Ceph on btrfs, but isn’t this related to the btrfs snapshotting feature ceph uses to ensure a consistent journal? It's possible: if I understand correctly the code, the btrfs filestore backend creates a snapshot when syncing the journal. I'm a

Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs

2015-06-22 Thread Krzysztof Nowicki
pon., 22.06.2015 o 13:11 użytkownik Lionel Bouton lionel+c...@bouton.name napisał: On 06/22/15 11:27, Jan Schermer wrote: I don’t run Ceph on btrfs, but isn’t this related to the btrfs snapshotting feature ceph uses to ensure a consistent journal? It's possible: if I understand correctly

Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs

2015-06-22 Thread Jan Schermer
the reply to the list... Forwarded Message Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs Date:Fri, 19 Jun 2015 09:06:33 +0200 From:Burkhard Linke burkhard.li...@computational.bio.uni-giessen.de mailto:burkhard.li

Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs

2015-06-22 Thread Krzysztof Nowicki
pon., 22.06.2015 o 20:09 użytkownik Lionel Bouton lionel-subscript...@bouton.name napisał: On 06/22/15 17:21, Erik Logtenberg wrote: I have the journals on a separate disk too. How do you disable the snapshotting on the OSD?

Re: [ceph-users] Unexpected disk write activity with btrfs OSDs

2015-06-18 Thread Lionel Bouton
I just realized I forgot to add a proper context : this is with Firefly 0.80.9 and the btrfs OSDs are running on kernel 4.0.5 (this was happening with previous kernel versions according to our monitoring history), xfs OSDs run on 4.0.5 or 3.18.9. There are 23 OSDs total and 2 of them are using