thanks Oliver, does the journal need be committed twice? One is for write
IO to the cache tier? the other is for write IO destaged to SATA backend
pool?

2016-04-21 19:38 GMT+08:00 Oliver Dzombic <i...@ip-interactive.de>:

> Hi,
>
> afaik cache does not have to do anything with journals.
>
> So your OSD's need journals, and for performance, you will take SSD's.
>
> The Cache should be something faster than your OSD's. Usually SSD or NVMe.
>
> The Cache is an extra Space in front of your OSD's which is supposed to
> speed up things because the cache operate faster than the OSD's and the
> cache will flush its content to the slower OSD's.
>
> So, the cache is independent from the OSD's. And this way, from their
> journals.
>
> And, the cache >must< be on faster drives than the OSD's, otherwise you
> wont see any performance increase.
>
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> Am 21.04.2016 um 13:27 schrieb min fang:
> > Hi, my ceph cluster has two pools, ssd cache tier pool and SATA backend
> > pool. For this configuration, do I need use SSD as journal device? I do
> > not know whether cache tier take the journal role? thanks
> >
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