Re: [lustre-discuss] trimming flash-based external journal device

2021-08-05 Thread Andreas Dilger via lustre-discuss
On Aug 5, 2021, at 17:44, Nathan Dauchy - NOAA Affiliate via lustre-discuss mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org>> wrote: On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 3:23 PM Andreas Dilger mailto:adil...@whamcloud.com>> wrote: On Aug 5, 2021, at 13:29, Nathan Dauchy wrote: Andreas, thanks as always for your insigh

Re: [lustre-discuss] trimming flash-based external journal device

2021-08-05 Thread Nathan Dauchy - NOAA Affiliate via lustre-discuss
On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 3:23 PM Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Aug 5, 2021, at 13:29, Nathan Dauchy wrote: > > Andreas, thanks as always for your insight. Comments inline... > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 10:48 AM Andreas Dilger > wrote: > >> On Aug 5, 2021, at 09:28, Nathan Dauchy via lustre-discuss <

Re: [lustre-discuss] trimming flash-based external journal device

2021-08-05 Thread Andreas Dilger via lustre-discuss
On Aug 5, 2021, at 13:29, Nathan Dauchy - NOAA Affiliate mailto:nathan.dau...@noaa.gov>> wrote: Andreas, thanks as always for your insight. Comments inline... On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 10:48 AM Andreas Dilger mailto:adil...@whamcloud.com>> wrote: On Aug 5, 2021, at 09:28, Nathan Dauchy via lustre

Re: [lustre-discuss] trimming flash-based external journal device

2021-08-05 Thread Nathan Dauchy - NOAA Affiliate via lustre-discuss
Andreas, thanks as always for your insight. Comments inline... On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 10:48 AM Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Aug 5, 2021, at 09:28, Nathan Dauchy via lustre-discuss < > lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org> wrote: > > Question: Is it possible that a flash journal device on an ext4 > fi

Re: [lustre-discuss] trimming flash-based external journal device

2021-08-05 Thread Andreas Dilger via lustre-discuss
On Aug 5, 2021, at 09:28, Nathan Dauchy - NOAA Affiliate via lustre-discuss mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org>> wrote: Greetings ext4 and flash storage experts! Motivation: We have ldiskfs OSTs that are primarily HDDs and use a Flash device for an external journal device. Recent IOR benc

[lustre-discuss] trimming flash-based external journal device

2021-08-05 Thread Nathan Dauchy - NOAA Affiliate via lustre-discuss
Greetings ext4 and flash storage experts! Motivation: We have ldiskfs OSTs that are primarily HDDs and use a Flash device for an external journal device. Recent IOR benchmarks showed that write performance dropped (suddenly?) to about 25% of the original baseline, yet read performance remains fi