ceph-deploy disk partition alignment

ceph-deploy disk partition alignment

[Somnath Roy]

Hi,
I am seeing ceph-deploy is creating data partition from sector 1 ignoring what sgdisk is recommending (256 in my disk). Basically, it should be aligned with physical sector size (reported in /sys/block/<device>/queue/physical_block_size). In my case it is 16K physical and 4K logical...256 is perfectly fine as sgdisk/fdisk internally decides.
Disk performance will be severely impacted because of partitioning this way from ceph-deploy , any reason why we are doing like this ?

Thanks & Regards
Somnath
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Re: ceph-disk disk partition alignment

[Loic Dachary]

Hi,

This not a ceph-deploy issue, rather a ceph-disk issue. Did you file an issue regarding this problem or would you like me to create one ? IIRC there are cases where sgdisk is not able to create a partition  aligned as recommended (but parted could). Do you know anything about that ?

Cheers

On 23/02/2016 01:27, Somnath Roy wrote:
> Hi,
> I am seeing ceph-deploy is creating data partition from sector 1 ignoring what sgdisk is recommending (256 in my disk). Basically, it should be aligned with physical sector size (reported in /sys/block/<device>/queue/physical_block_size). In my case it is 16K physical and 4K logical...256 is perfectly fine as sgdisk/fdisk internally decides.
> Disk performance will be severely impacted because of partitioning this way from ceph-deploy , any reason why we are doing like this ?



> Thanks & Regards
> Somnath
>

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RE: ceph-disk disk partition alignment

[Somnath Roy]

Yeah, my bad, ceph-disk issue, thanks...No, I didn't file any tracker, please go ahead..

<< IIRC there are cases where sgdisk is not able to create a partition  aligned as recommended (but parted could).

Nope, I don't know the scenarios where sgdisk/fdisk/gdisk won't be able to create properly aligned partitions..If you can share that knowledge would be helpful..

Thanks & Regards
Somnath

-----Original Message-----
From: Loic Dachary [mailto:loic@dachary.org]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 9:12 PM
To: Somnath Roy; ceph-devel
Subject: Re: ceph-disk disk partition alignment

Hi,

This not a ceph-deploy issue, rather a ceph-disk issue. Did you file an issue regarding this problem or would you like me to create one ? IIRC there are cases where sgdisk is not able to create a partition  aligned as recommended (but parted could). Do you know anything about that ?

Cheers

On 23/02/2016 01:27, Somnath Roy wrote:
> Hi,
> I am seeing ceph-deploy is creating data partition from sector 1 ignoring what sgdisk is recommending (256 in my disk). Basically, it should be aligned with physical sector size (reported in /sys/block/<device>/queue/physical_block_size). In my case it is 16K physical and 4K logical...256 is perfectly fine as sgdisk/fdisk internally decides.
> Disk performance will be severely impacted because of partitioning this way from ceph-deploy , any reason why we are doing like this ?



> Thanks & Regards
> Somnath
>

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Re: ceph-disk disk partition alignment

[Loic Dachary]

Here it is http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/14842

On 23/02/2016 12:24, Somnath Roy wrote:
> eph-deploy is creating data partition from sector 1 ignoring what sgdisk is recommending (256 in my disk). Basically, it should be aligned with physical sector size (reported in /sys/block/<device>/queue/physical_block_size). In my case it is 16K physical and 4K logical...256 is perfectly fine as sgdisk/fdisk internally decides.
>> Disk performance will be severely impacted because of partitioning this way from ceph-deploy , 

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Re: ceph-disk disk partition alignment

[Василий Ангапов]

In my case (Hammer 0.94.5) I see actually the proper alignment made by
ceph-disk. Thing is that fdisk is not able to see GPT partitions:

root@slpeah001:[~]:# fdisk -l /dev/sdf

Disk /dev/sdf: 4000.8 GB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdf1               1  4294967295  2147483647+  ee  GPT
root@slpeah001:[~]:# gdisk -l /dev/sdf
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.6

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sdf: 7814037168 sectors, 3.6 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): E1063D97-3EFF-4F81-A08F-81D069625677
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 7814037134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048      7814037134   3.6 TiB     FFFF  ceph data

So I think ceph-disk does things right... But  before I use ceph-disk
I create an empty GPT with gdisk.

2016-02-23 13:49 GMT+08:00 Loic Dachary <loic@dachary.org>:
> Here it is http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/14842
>
> On 23/02/2016 12:24, Somnath Roy wrote:
>> eph-deploy is creating data partition from sector 1 ignoring what sgdisk is recommending (256 in my disk). Basically, it should be aligned with physical sector size (reported in /sys/block/<device>/queue/physical_block_size). In my case it is 16K physical and 4K logical...256 is perfectly fine as sgdisk/fdisk internally decides.
>>> Disk performance will be severely impacted because of partitioning this way from ceph-deploy ,
>
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Re: ceph-deploy disk partition alignment

[Alfredo Deza]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Somnath Roy <Somnath.Roy@sandisk.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am seeing ceph-deploy is creating data partition from sector 1 ignoring what sgdisk is recommending (256 in my disk). Basically, it should be aligned with physical sector size (reported in /sys/block/<device>/queue/physical_block_size). In my case it is 16K physical and 4K logical...256 is perfectly fine as sgdisk/fdisk internally decides.
> Disk performance will be severely impacted because of partitioning this way from ceph-deploy , any reason why we are doing like this ?

I don't think ceph-deploy is particularly opinionated on this. Have
you tried using ceph-disk directly to see if the behavior persists?

For OSDs/disks ceph-deploy mostly proxies to a remote node with ceph-disk.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Somnath
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RE: ceph-disk disk partition alignment

[Somnath Roy]

By default fdisk detects dos partitions , you need to change mode to see GPT partitions.
I didn't see ceph-disk output below , at what sector it is starting with ?


Thanks & Regards
Somnath

-----Original Message-----
From: Василий Ангапов [mailto:angapov@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 11:09 PM
To: Loic Dachary
Cc: Somnath Roy; ceph-devel
Subject: Re: ceph-disk disk partition alignment

In my case (Hammer 0.94.5) I see actually the proper alignment made by ceph-disk. Thing is that fdisk is not able to see GPT partitions:

root@slpeah001:[~]:# fdisk -l /dev/sdf

Disk /dev/sdf: 4000.8 GB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdf1               1  4294967295  2147483647+  ee  GPT
root@slpeah001:[~]:# gdisk -l /dev/sdf
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.6

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk /dev/sdf: 7814037168 sectors, 3.6 TiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): E1063D97-3EFF-4F81-A08F-81D069625677
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 7814037134 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048      7814037134   3.6 TiB     FFFF  ceph data

So I think ceph-disk does things right... But  before I use ceph-disk I create an empty GPT with gdisk.

2016-02-23 13:49 GMT+08:00 Loic Dachary <loic@dachary.org>:
> Here it is http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/14842
>
> On 23/02/2016 12:24, Somnath Roy wrote:
>> eph-deploy is creating data partition from sector 1 ignoring what sgdisk is recommending (256 in my disk). Basically, it should be aligned with physical sector size (reported in /sys/block/<device>/queue/physical_block_size). In my case it is 16K physical and 4K logical...256 is perfectly fine as sgdisk/fdisk internally decides.
>>> Disk performance will be severely impacted because of partitioning
>>> this way from ceph-deploy ,
>
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RE: ceph-deploy disk partition alignment

[Somnath Roy]

Yes, as Loic mentioned the title should be ceph-disk not ceph-deploy :-)
I saw ceph-disk is returning hardcoded sector 1 in the code on some condition (I forgot)
Anyways, will try with ceph-disk directly to see the behavior..

Thanks & Regards
Somnath

-----Original Message-----
From: Alfredo Deza [mailto:adeza@redhat.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 4:12 AM
To: Somnath Roy
Cc: ceph-devel
Subject: Re: ceph-deploy disk partition alignment

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Somnath Roy <Somnath.Roy@sandisk.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am seeing ceph-deploy is creating data partition from sector 1 ignoring what sgdisk is recommending (256 in my disk). Basically, it should be aligned with physical sector size (reported in /sys/block/<device>/queue/physical_block_size). In my case it is 16K physical and 4K logical...256 is perfectly fine as sgdisk/fdisk internally decides.
> Disk performance will be severely impacted because of partitioning this way from ceph-deploy , any reason why we are doing like this ?

I don't think ceph-deploy is particularly opinionated on this. Have you tried using ceph-disk directly to see if the behavior persists?

For OSDs/disks ceph-deploy mostly proxies to a remote node with ceph-disk.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Somnath
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RE: ceph-disk disk partition alignment

[Somnath Roy]

Hi Alfredo,
As expected, wanted to confirm that this is happening with ceph-disk also..After running 'ceph-disk prepare' I am seeing the similar behavior..

Disk /dev/sdj: 7681.5 GB, 7681501126656 bytes
256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116280 cylinders, total 1875366486 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 16384 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 16384 bytes / 16384 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdj1               1  1875366485  3206498644   ee  GPT
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.

Thanks & Regards
Somnath

-----Original Message-----
From: Somnath Roy 
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 8:58 AM
To: 'Alfredo Deza'
Cc: ceph-devel
Subject: RE: ceph-deploy disk partition alignment

Yes, as Loic mentioned the title should be ceph-disk not ceph-deploy :-) I saw ceph-disk is returning hardcoded sector 1 in the code on some condition (I forgot) Anyways, will try with ceph-disk directly to see the behavior..

Thanks & Regards
Somnath

-----Original Message-----
From: Alfredo Deza [mailto:adeza@redhat.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 4:12 AM
To: Somnath Roy
Cc: ceph-devel
Subject: Re: ceph-deploy disk partition alignment

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Somnath Roy <Somnath.Roy@sandisk.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am seeing ceph-deploy is creating data partition from sector 1 ignoring what sgdisk is recommending (256 in my disk). Basically, it should be aligned with physical sector size (reported in /sys/block/<device>/queue/physical_block_size). In my case it is 16K physical and 4K logical...256 is perfectly fine as sgdisk/fdisk internally decides.
> Disk performance will be severely impacted because of partitioning this way from ceph-deploy , any reason why we are doing like this ?

I don't think ceph-deploy is particularly opinionated on this. Have you tried using ceph-disk directly to see if the behavior persists?

For OSDs/disks ceph-deploy mostly proxies to a remote node with ceph-disk.
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Somnath
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Re: ceph-disk disk partition alignment

[Ric Wheeler]

On 02/23/2016 11:19 AM, Loic Dachary wrote:
> Here it is http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/14842
>
> On 23/02/2016 12:24, Somnath Roy wrote:
>> eph-deploy is creating data partition from sector 1 ignoring what sgdisk is recommending (256 in my disk). Basically, it should be aligned with physical sector size (reported in /sys/block/<device>/queue/physical_block_size). In my case it is 16K physical and 4K logical...256 is perfectly fine as sgdisk/fdisk internally decides.
>>> Disk performance will be severely impacted because of partitioning this way from ceph-deploy ,

I think that more modern partition tools handle alignment better (and handle the 
modern partition types) - sfdisk and parted both are better than fdisk I believe.

For RHEL & Fedora, we try hard to make sure that we use the advertised alignment 
when we create a partition and default to an alignment on sector 2048 (1MB) if 
it is not set by the device.

Ric

Re: ceph-disk disk partition alignment

[Loic Dachary]

Hi Ric,

On 07/03/2016 15:07, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> On 02/23/2016 11:19 AM, Loic Dachary wrote:
>> Here it is http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/14842
>>
>> On 23/02/2016 12:24, Somnath Roy wrote:
>>> eph-deploy is creating data partition from sector 1 ignoring what sgdisk is recommending (256 in my disk). Basically, it should be aligned with physical sector size (reported in /sys/block/<device>/queue/physical_block_size). In my case it is 16K physical and 4K logical...256 is perfectly fine as sgdisk/fdisk internally decides.
>>>> Disk performance will be severely impacted because of partitioning this way from ceph-deploy ,
> 
> I think that more modern partition tools handle alignment better (and handle the modern partition types) - sfdisk and parted both are better than fdisk I believe.
> 
> For RHEL & Fedora, we try hard to make sure that we use the advertised alignment when we create a partition and default to an alignment on sector 2048 (1MB) if it is not set by the device.

So far we've used https://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/, do you know if it has limitations that would be better addressed by other tools ?

Cheers

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