On Sunday, January 4, 2015, Dyweni - Ceph-Users <6exbab4fy...@dyweni.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > If its the only think in your pool, you could try deleting the pool > instead. > > I found that to be faster in my testing; I had created 500TB when I meant > to create 500GB. > > Note for the Devs: I would be nice if rbd create/resize would accept sizes > with units (i.e. MB GB TB PB, etc). > > > > > On 2015-01-04 08:45, Edwin Peer wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I did something stupid while growing an rbd image. I accidentally >> mistook the units of the resize command for bytes instead of megabytes >> and grew an rbd image to 650PB instead of 650GB. This all happened >> instantaneously enough, but trying to rectify the mistake is not going >> nearly as well. >> >> <snip> >> ganymede ~ # rbd resize --size 665600 --allow-shrink >> client-disk-img0/vol-x318644f-0 >> Resizing image: 1% complete... >> </snip> >> >> It took a couple days before it started showing 1% complete and has >> been stuck on 1% for a couple more. At this rate, I should be able to >> shrink the image back to the intended size in about 2016. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Regards, >> Edwin Peer >> _______________________________________________ >> ceph-users mailing list >> ceph-users@lists.ceph.com >> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com >> > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@lists.ceph.com > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > You can just delete the rbd header. See Sebastien's excellent blog: http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/12/12/rbd-image-bigger-than-your-ceph-cluster/ Jake
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