Re: Adding Data-At-Rest compression support to Ceph

[Igor Fedotov <ifedotov@mirantis.com>]

Another thing to note is that we don't have the whole object ready for 
compression. We just have some new data block written(appended) to the 
object. And we should either compress that block and save mentioned 
mapping data or decompress the existing object data and do full 
compression again.
And IMO introducing seek points is largely similar to what we were 
talking about - it requires a sort of offset mapping as well.

Probably compression at OSD has some Pros as well. But it wouldn't 
eliminate the need to "muck with stripe sizes or anything".

On 24.09.2015 20:53, Samuel Just wrote:
> The catch is that currently accessing 4k in the middle of a 4MB object
> does not require reading the whole object, so you'd need some kind of
> logical offset -> compressed offset mapping.
> -Sam
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Robert LeBlanc <robert@leblancnet.us> wrote:
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>> I'm probably missing something, but since we are talking about data at
>> rest, can't we just have the OSD compress the object as it goes to
>> disk? Instead of
>> rbd\udata.1ba49c10d9b00c.0000000000006859__head_2AD1002B__11 it would
>> be rbd\udata.1ba49c10d9b00c.0000000000006859__head_2AD1002B__11.{gz,xz,bz2,lzo,etc}.
>> Then it seems that you don't have to muck with stripe sizes or
>> anything. For compressible objects they would be less than 4MB, some
>> of theses algorithms already say if it is not compressible enough,
>> just store it.
>>
>> Something like zlib Z_FULL_FLUSH may help provide some seek points
>> within an archive to prevent decompressing the whole object for reads?
>>
>> - ----------------
>> Robert LeBlanc
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>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Igor Fedotov  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 24.09.2015 19:03, Sage Weil wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Igor Fedotov wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dynamic stripe sizes are possible but it's a significant change from the
>>>> way the EC pool currently works. I would make that a separate project (as
>>>> its useful in its own right) and not complicate the compression situation.
>>>> Or, if it simplifies the compression approach, then I'd make that change
>>>> first. sage
>>> Just to clarify a bit. What I saw when played with Ceph. Please correct me
>>> if I'm wrong..
>>>
>>> For low-level RADOS access client data written to EC pool has to be aligned
>>> with stripe size . The last block can be unaligned though but no more
>>> appends are permitted in this case.
>>> Data copied from cache goes in blocks up to 8Mb size. In general case  the
>>> last block seems to have unaligned size too.
>>>
>>> EC pool additionally performs alignment of the incoming blocks to stripe
>>> bound internally. This way blocks going to EC lib are always aligned.
>>> We should probably perform compression prior to this alignment.
>>> Thus some dependency on stripe size is present in EC pools but it's not that
>>> strict.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Igor
>>>
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