This caused some discussions on the mailing list, so let's try to be clear about the meaning of an OSD weight. Signed-Off-By: Andre Noll <maan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- doc/control.rst | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/control.rst b/doc/control.rst index 2c69ddc..133e0ac 100644 --- a/doc/control.rst +++ b/doc/control.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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html