Thanks Alfredo. Just to clear that My configuration has 5 OSD's (7200 rpm
SAS HDDS) which are slower than the 200G SSD. Thats why I asked for a 10G
WAL partition for each OSD on the SSD.

Are you asking us to do 40GB  * 5 partitions on SSD just for block.db?

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 5:36 PM Alfredo Deza <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 8:27 AM, Muhammad Junaid <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi there
> >
> > Asking the questions as a newbie. May be asked a number of times before
> by
> > many but sorry, it is not clear yet to me.
> >
> > 1. The WAL device is just like journaling device used before bluestore.
> And
> > CEPH confirms Write to client after writing to it (Before actual write to
> > primary device)?
> >
> > 2. If we have lets say 5 OSD's (4 TB SAS) and 1 200GB SSD. Should we
> > partition SSD in 10 partitions? Shoud/Can we set WAL Partition Size
> against
> > each OSD as 10GB? Or what min/max we should set for WAL Partition? And
> can
> > we set remaining 150GB as (30GB * 5) for 5 db partitions for all OSD's?
>
> A WAL partition would only help if you have a device faster than the
> SSD where the block.db would go.
>
> We recently updated our sizing recommendations for block.db at least
> 4% of the size of block (also referenced as the data device):
>
>
> http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/rados/configuration/bluestore-config-ref/#sizing
>
> In your case, what you want is to create 5 logical volumes from your
> 200GB at 40GB each, without a need for a WAL device.
>
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance. Regards.
> >
> > Muhammad Junaid
> >
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