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From: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
To: Tommi Virtanen <tommi.virtanen@dreamhost.com>
Cc: Gregory Farnum <gregory.farnum@dreamhost.com>,
	Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>,
	ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Subject: [PATCH/RFC 6/6] doc: Clarify documentation of reweight command.
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:04:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1322489076-31364-7-git-send-email-maan@systemlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1322489076-31364-1-git-send-email-maan@systemlinux.org>

This has led to some discussions on the mailing list, so let's try
to be clear about the meaning of an OSD weight.
---
 doc/ops/monitor.rst |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/ops/monitor.rst b/doc/ops/monitor.rst
index 076c8e1..5fcb0aa 100644
--- a/doc/ops/monitor.rst
+++ b/doc/ops/monitor.rst
@@ -152,7 +152,9 @@ resending pending requests. ::
 
 	$ ceph osd reweight N W
 
-Sets the weight of osdN to W. ::
+Set the weight of osdN to W. Two OSDs with the same weight will receive
+roughly the same number of I/O requests and store approximately the
+same amount of data. ::
 
 	$ ceph osd reweight-by-utilization [threshold]
 
-- 
1.7.8.rc1.14.g248db


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-28 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-11  5:14 v0.38 released Sage Weil
2011-11-15 16:42 ` Andre Noll
2011-11-15 19:53   ` Gregory Farnum
2011-11-16  9:56     ` Andre Noll
2011-11-16 18:04       ` Tommi Virtanen
2011-11-17 10:35         ` Andre Noll
2011-11-17 18:01           ` Tommi Virtanen
2011-11-18 15:01             ` Andre Noll
2011-11-18 18:47               ` Tommi Virtanen
2011-11-21 17:32                 ` Andre Noll
2011-11-21 17:36                   ` Tommi Virtanen
2011-11-21 18:06                     ` Andre Noll
2011-11-28 14:04                       ` [PATCH/RFC 0/6]: Introduction Andre Noll
2011-11-28 14:04                         ` [PATCH/RFC 1/6] doc: Import the list of ceph subcommands from wiki Andre Noll
2011-11-28 14:04                         ` [PATCH/RFC 2/6] doc: Add documentation of missing osd commands Andre Noll
2011-11-28 14:04                         ` [PATCH/RFC 3/6] doc: Document pause and unpause " Andre Noll
2011-11-28 14:04                         ` [PATCH/RFC 4/6] doc: Update the list of fields for the pool set command Andre Noll
2011-11-28 14:04                         ` [PATCH/RFC 5/6] doc: Add missing documentation for osd pool get Andre Noll
2011-11-28 18:37                           ` Gregory Farnum
2011-11-28 19:27                             ` Andre Noll
2011-11-28 14:04                         ` Andre Noll [this message]
2011-12-05 21:09                         ` [PATCH/RFC 0/6]: Introduction Tommi Virtanen
2011-12-06 17:01                           ` Andre Noll

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