[ceph-users] Re: How I disable DB and WAL for an OSD for improving 8K performance

2022-04-25 Thread Boris Behrens
I wouldn't create a separate partition for the DB and let the OSD handle it. First, you don't waste space (even a couple of GB begin to pile up on a lot of OSDs) and you have a lot less to manage. Just create the OSD on the raw device (I use `ceph-volume lvm create --bluestore --data /dev/sdXY`) R

[ceph-users] Re: How I disable DB and WAL for an OSD for improving 8K performance

2022-04-25 Thread huxia...@horebdata.cn
Thanks a lof, Boris. Do you mean that, the best practice would be to create a DB partition on the SSD as OSD, and disable WAL by setting bluestore_prefer_deferred_size= 0, and bluestore_prefer_deferred_size_ssd=0 Or there is no need to create a DB partition on the SSD and let the OSD manages e

[ceph-users] Re: How I disable DB and WAL for an OSD for improving 8K performance

2022-04-25 Thread Boris Behrens
Hi Samuel, IIRC at least the DB (I am not sure if flash drives use the 1GB WAL) is always located on the same device as the OSD, when it is not configured somewhere else. On SSDs/NVMEs people tend to not separate the DB/WAL on other devices. Cheers Boris Am Mo., 25. Apr. 2022 um 10:09 Uhr schri