[ceph-users] Re: bluestore compression questions

2020-02-21 Thread Igor Fedotov
Hi Andras, I think you're missing one (at least!) more important aspect in your calculations which is writing block size. BlueStore compresses each writing block independently. As Ceph object size in your case is presumably 4MiB which (as far as I understand EC functioning) is split into 9 pa

[ceph-users] Re: bluestore compression questions

2020-02-19 Thread Andras Pataki
Hi Igor, Thanks for the insightful details on how to interpret the compression data.  I'm still a bit confused about why compression doesn't work better in my case, so I've decided to try a test.  I created 16 GiB cephfs file which is just a repeat of 4 characters 'abcd' essentially 4 billion

[ceph-users] Re: bluestore compression questions

2020-02-17 Thread Igor Fedotov
Hi Andras, please find my answers inline. On 2/15/2020 12:27 AM, Andras Pataki wrote: We're considering using bluestore compression for some of our data, and I'm not entirely sure how to interpret compression results.  As an example, one of the osd perf dump results shows:     "bluestore