I believe there is a limitation to only 1 file path you can use in ATS
(might be wrong). If you use block devices, you can multiple block devices
(RAM, SSD or HDD) and assign different volume to them. So you can have
different content on different block devices.
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Randeep <randeep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Leif, James and Steve.
>
> I don't have any issue using RAMdisk with tmpfs mounting as directory. I
> was asking whether it is right thing to do.
>
> Best regards,
> Randeep
>
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Steve Malenfant <smalenf...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Look into the Traffic Control CDN project. They have figured that one out
>> with the ramdisk block devices. As far as I can tell, it should be the
>> following :
>>
>> - Set the proper ramdisk_size in the kernel boot line to create big
>> enough ramdisk block devices
>> - Put as many devices you need in the storage.config. You can have a
>> single ram_disk or multiple just like disk volume. Ex: "/dev/ram0 volume=2"
>> - Modify the permission to allow ats to read/write from the block devices
>> (using udev, if you are not running as root).
>> - Reboot server
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 3:50 AM, James Peach <jpe...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> > On Jul 24, 2016, at 4:21 PM, Randeep <randeep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Thank you James.
>>> >
>>> > Is there any specific way do you recommend using ramdisk? As raw
>>> device?
>>>
>>> Like I just said, you can’t use tmpfs as a block device. I believe you
>>> can use ramdisk as a block device but I haven’t tried it; you should go
>>> read the kernel documentation on that.
>>>
>>> Like I showed below, tmpfs seems to work fine. Mayb you have some other
>>> problem?
>>>
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Randeep
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:48 AM, James Peach <jpe...@apache.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >>> On Jul 24, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Randeep <randeep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Hi all,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I am trying to use RAMdisk for ats.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Here is how I created RAMDISK
>>> >>> *mount -o size=20G -t tmpfs none /mnt/ramdisk/*
>>> >>>
>>> >>> And in storage.config I have specified it as below.
>>> >>> cat /opt/ats/etc/trafficserver/storage.config
>>> >>> /mnt/ramdisk* 20G*
>>> >>>
>>> >>> But every time I restart ats, I get the following warning.
>>> >>> [Jul 23 21:15:28.334] Server {0x2b9a5aba6380} WARNING: <Store.cc:528
>>> >>> (init)> not enough free space for cache directory '/mnt/ramdisk’
>>> >>
>>> >> I did a quick test and tmpfs doesn’t support any of the ioctl methods
>>> that
>>> >> we use to determine the block device size and IO parameters so you
>>> won’t be
>>> >> able to use this as a raw device.
>>> >>
>>> >> Adding it as a directory seems to work just fine…
>>> >>
>>> >> [root@fedora-23 trafficserver]# cat
>>> >> /opt/ats/etc/trafficserver/storage.config
>>> >> /mnt/ramdisk 20G
>>> >>
>>> >> [root@fedora-23 trafficserver]# ls -lh /mnt/ramdisk
>>> >> total 26M
>>> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 20G Jul 23 23:15 cache.db
>>> >>
>>> >>> My question is, what is the right way to create ramdisk for ats and
>>> how
>>> >> we
>>> >>> need to specify it in the storage.config. (with or without size?)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I checked in the documentation also. It doesn't have any information
>>> >>> regarding ramdisk. It would be great if someone can add it.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> --
>>> >>> Randeep
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>>> >>> http://in.linkedin.com/in/randeeppr
>>> >>>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> [image: --]
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>>> >>> <http://about.me/Randeeppr>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Randeep
>>> > Mob: +919447831699[kerala]
>>> > Mob: +919880050349[B'lore]
>>> > http://twitter.com/Randeeppr
>>> > http://in.linkedin.com/in/randeeppr
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > [image: --]
>>> > Randeep Raman
>>> > [image: http://]about.me/Randeeppr
>>> > <http://about.me/Randeeppr>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Randeep
> Mob: +919447831699[kerala]
> Mob: +919880050349[B'lore]
> http://twitter.com/Randeeppr
> http://in.linkedin.com/in/randeeppr
>
>
> [image: --]
> Randeep Raman
> [image: http://]about.me/Randeeppr
> <http://about.me/Randeeppr>
>
>
