Re: [ceph-users] EC pool migrations

2017-02-08 Thread Blair Bethwaite
I'm unlikely to get back to this in a hurry with a 100% confirmation it works (by end-to-end testing from the client perspective), but where I got to so far looked promising so I thought I'd share. Note that this was done on a Hammer cluster. Notes/expansions on steps inline: The assumption here i

Re: [ceph-users] EC pool migrations

2017-02-07 Thread David Turner
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Re: [ceph-users] EC pool migrations

2017-02-07 Thread Blair Bethwaite
On 7 February 2017 at 23:50, Blair Bethwaite wrote: > 1) insert a large enough temporary replicated pool as a cache tier > 2) somehow force promotion of every object into the cache (don't see > any way to do that other than actually read them - but at least some > creative scripting could do that

[ceph-users] EC pool migrations

2017-02-07 Thread Blair Bethwaite
Hi all, Wondering if anyone has come up with a quick and minimal impact way of moving data between erasure coded pools? We want to shrink an existing EC pool (also changing the EC profile at the same time) that backs our main RGW buckets. Thus far the only successful way I've found of managing the