Re: [ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks > Number of Hosts

2015-01-06 Thread Nick Fisk
Behalf Of Nick Fisk Sent: 06 January 2015 07:43 To: 'Loic Dachary'; ceph-us...@ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks > Number of Hosts Hi Loic, That's an interesting idea, I suppose the same could probably be achieved by just creating more "Crush Host

Re: [ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks > Number of Hosts

2015-01-06 Thread Nick Fisk
lto:l...@dachary.org] Sent: 05 January 2015 17:38 To: Nick Fisk; ceph-us...@ceph.com Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks > Number of Hosts Hi Nick, What about subdividing your hosts using containers ? For instance four container per host on your four hosts which gives you 16 hosts.

Re: [ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks > Number of Hosts

2015-01-05 Thread Loic Dachary
Hi Nick, What about subdividing your hosts using containers ? For instance four container per host on your four hosts which gives you 16 hosts. When you add more hosts you move containers around and reduce the number of containers per host. But you don't need to change the rulesets. Cheers On

[ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks > Number of Hosts

2015-01-05 Thread Nick Fisk
Hi All, Would anybody have an idea a) If it's possible and b) if it's a good idea to have more EC chunks than the total number of hosts? For instance if I wanted to have a k=6 m=2, but only across 4 hosts and I wanted to be able to withstand 1 host failure and 1 disk failure(any host), wo

Re: [ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks

2014-12-08 Thread Loic Dachary
nal Message- > From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of > Loic Dachary > Sent: 05 December 2014 17:28 > To: Nick Fisk; 'Ceph Users' > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks > > > > On 05/12/2014 17:41, Nick Fisk wr

Re: [ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks

2014-12-06 Thread Nick Fisk
ph.com] On Behalf Of Loic Dachary Sent: 05 December 2014 17:28 To: Nick Fisk; 'Ceph Users' Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks On 05/12/2014 17:41, Nick Fisk wrote: > Hi Loic, > > Thanks for your response. > > The idea for this cluster will be for our VM Repl

Re: [ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks

2014-12-05 Thread Loic Dachary
gt; Thanks, > Nick > > -Original Message- > From: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of > Loic Dachary > Sent: 05 December 2014 16:23 > To: Nick Fisk; 'Ceph Users' > Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks > > > &

Re: [ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks

2014-12-05 Thread Nick Fisk
: ceph-users [mailto:ceph-users-boun...@lists.ceph.com] On Behalf Of Loic Dachary Sent: 05 December 2014 16:23 To: Nick Fisk; 'Ceph Users' Subject: Re: [ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks On 05/12/2014 16:21, Nick Fisk wrote:> Hi All, > > > > Does anybody have any in

Re: [ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks

2014-12-05 Thread Loic Dachary
On 05/12/2014 16:21, Nick Fisk wrote:> Hi All, > > > > Does anybody have any input on what the best ratio + total numbers of Data + > Coding chunks you would choose? > > > > For example I could create a pool with 7 data chunks and 3 coding chunks and > get an efficiency of 70%, or I cou

[ceph-users] Erasure Encoding Chunks

2014-12-05 Thread Nick Fisk
Hi All, Does anybody have any input on what the best ratio + total numbers of Data + Coding chunks you would choose? For example I could create a pool with 7 data chunks and 3 coding chunks and get an efficiency of 70%, or I could create a pool with 17 data chunks and 3 coding chunks and ge