On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 3:28 PM Void Star Nill <void.star.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My understanding is that the time to format an RBD volume is not dependent
> on its size as the RBD volumes are thin provisioned. Is this correct?
>
> For example, formatting a 1G volume should take almost the same time as
> formatting a 1TB volume - although accounting for differences in latencies
> due to load on the Ceph cluster. Is that a fair assumption?

Yes, that is a fair comparison when creating the RBD image. However, a
format operation might initialize and discard extents on the disk, so
a larger disk will take longer to format.

> Thanks,
> Shridhar
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Jason
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