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From: Peter Niemayer <niemayer@isg.de>
To: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using other filesystems than btrfs with Ceph
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:47:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hutpad$p9t$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1006110938120.20973@cobra.newdream.net>

On 06/11/2010 06:40 PM, Sage Weil wrote:
> The btrfs isn't required for consistency if the writeahead journal is
> enabled (which it is by default).  However, at the moment the code that
> controls trimming the journal assumes ext3 data=ordered fsync semantics
> (fsync flushes the entire journal and all prior writes).  This needs a
> little bit of work to do the right thing with ext4 and xfs.
>
> So: I would stick with btrfs or ext3 for now if you want recovery to work
> reliably!

The recovery you are referring to, here, is that an operation required...

a) after an outage that involved many/all redundant OSDs
b) after a physical failure of one underlying storage device
c) after every disconnect/reconnect of Ceph nodes

?

Regards,

Peter Niemayer


  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-11 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-11 14:23 Using other filesystems than btrfs with Ceph Peter Niemayer
2010-06-11 16:26 ` Gregory Farnum
2010-06-11 16:40   ` Sage Weil
2010-06-11 16:47     ` Peter Niemayer [this message]
2010-06-11 16:54       ` Sage Weil
2010-06-11 16:42   ` Peter Niemayer

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