On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Wido den Hollander <w...@42on.com> wrote:

> On 11/09/2015 05:27 PM, Vickey Singh wrote:
> > Hello Ceph Geeks
> >
> > Need your comments with my understanding on straw2.
> >
> >    - Is Straw2 better than straw ?
>
> It is not persé better then straw(1).
>
> straw2 distributes data better when not all OSDs are equally
> sized/weighted.
>
> >    - Is it straw2 recommended  for production usage ?
> >
>
> I'm using it in multiple clusters and it works fine.
>

Yes i followed your update on twitter  :)


>
> > I have a production Ceph Firefly cluster , that i am going to upgrade to
> > Ceph hammer pretty soon. Should i use straw2 for all my ceph pools ?
> >
>
> I would upgrade to Hammer first and make sure that ALL clients are updated.
>
> In case you are using KVM/Qemu, you will have to stop those processes
> first and start them again before they are using the new code.
>

Thanks a lot for this pointer, i didn't knew this. So restarting KVM / QEMU
process effect running VMs ? ( some downtime )


>
> > Also how can i change from straw to straw2. ( should i decompile crush
> map
> > and replace all straw with straw2) ?
> >
>
> Yes, that's it. Extract, decompile, replace, compile, inject.
>
> $ ceph osd getcrushmap -o crushmap
> $ crushtool -d crushmap -o crushmap.txt
> $ <edit crushmap.txt>
> $ crushtool -c crushmap.txt -o crushmap.new
> $ ceph osd setcrushmap -i crushmap.new
>
> In case stuff goes wrong, inject the original crushmap.
>
> Wido
>

Thank You so much for your time in replying to my queries :)


>
> > Please suggest
> >
> > Thank You in advance.
> >
> > - Vickey -
> >
> >
> >
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