Re: [ceph-users] (yet another) multi active mds advise needed

2018-05-19 Thread Webert de Souza Lima
Hi Daniel, Thanks for clarifying. I'll have a look at dirfrag option. Regards, Webert Lima Em sáb, 19 de mai de 2018 01:18, Daniel Baumann escreveu: > On 05/19/2018 01:13 AM, Webert de Souza Lima wrote: > > New question: will it make any difference in the balancing if instead of > > having the

Re: [ceph-users] (yet another) multi active mds advise needed

2018-05-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/19/2018 01:13 AM, Webert de Souza Lima wrote: > New question: will it make any difference in the balancing if instead of > having the MAIL directory in the root of cephfs and the domains's > subtrees inside it, I discard the parent dir and put all the subtress right > in cephfs root? the ba

Re: [ceph-users] (yet another) multi active mds advise needed

2018-05-18 Thread Webert de Souza Lima
Hi Patrick On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 6:20 PM Patrick Donnelly wrote: > Each MDS may have multiple subtrees they are authoritative for. Each > MDS may also replicate metadata from another MDS as a form of load > balancing. Ok, its good to know that it actually does some load balance. Thanks. New

Re: [ceph-users] (yet another) multi active mds advise needed

2018-05-18 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/18/2018 11:19 PM, Patrick Donnelly wrote: > So, you would want to have a standby-replay > daemon for each rank or just have normal standbys. It will likely > depend on the size of your MDS (cache size) and available hardware. jftr, having 3 active mds and 3 standby-replay resulted May 20217

Re: [ceph-users] (yet another) multi active mds advise needed

2018-05-18 Thread Patrick Donnelly
Hello Webert, On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 1:10 PM, Webert de Souza Lima wrote: > Hi, > > We're migrating from a Jewel / filestore based cephfs archicture to a > Luminous / buestore based one. > > One MUST HAVE is multiple Active MDS daemons. I'm still lacking knowledge of > how it actually works. > A