Re: how to free space from rados bench comman?

[Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@inktank.com>]

On 05/24/2012 10:55 AM, Greg Farnum wrote:
> On Thursday, May 24, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
>> Am 24.05.2012 10:22, schrieb Wido den Hollander:
>>> On 24-05-12 09:38, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ~# rados -p data ls|wc -l
>>>> 46631
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That is weird, I thought the bench tool cleaned up it's "mess".
>>>
>>> Imho it should cleanup after it's done, but there might be a reason why
>>> it's not. Did you abort the benchmark or did you let it do the whole run?
>>
>>
>> No it doesn't BUG?
> It doesn't because you might want to leave around the data for read benchmarking (or so that your cluster is full of data).
> There should probably be an option to clean up bench data, though! I've created a bug: http://tracker.newdream.net/issues/2477

Why not have the read benchmark write data itself, and then benchmark
reading? Then both read and write benchmarks can clean up after
themselves.

It's a bit odd to have the read benchmark depend on you running a write
benchmark first.

Josh