Re: cephfs set_layout - EINVAL - solved

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On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Kasper Dieter
<dieter.kasper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OK,
> I found this nice page: http://ceph.com/docs/next/dev/file-striping/
> which explains "--stripe_unit --stripe_count --object_size"
>
> But still I'm not sure about
> (1) what is the equivalent command on cephfs to 'rbd create --order 16' ?

you can get/set file layout through virtual xattr. for example:

# getfattr -d -m - targetfile

> (2) how to use those parameters to achieve different optimized layouts on CephFS directories
>     (e.g. for streaming, small sequential IOs, small random IOs)
>

ceph directories are not implemented as files. you can't optimize ceph
directories by this way.

Regards
Yan, Zheng

> -Dieter
>
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 09:44:57AM +0200, Kasper Dieter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> my goal is to set the 'object size' used in the distribution inside rados
>> in an equal (or similar) way between RBD and CephFS.
>>
>> To set obj_size=64k in RBD I use the command:
>> rbd create --size 1024000 --pool SSD-r2 ssd2-1T-64k --order 16
>>
>> On cephfs set_layout '-s 65536' runs into EINVAL:
>> cephfs /mnt/cephfs/fio-64k/ set_layout -p 3 -s   65536 -u 4194304 -c 1
>> Error setting layout: Invalid argument
>>
>> cephfs /mnt/cephfs/fio-64k/ set_layout -p 3 -s   65536 -u 65536 -c 1
>> cephfs /mnt/cephfs/fio-64k/ show_layout
>> layout.data_pool:     3
>> layout.object_size:   65536
>> layout.stripe_unit:   65536
>> layout.stripe_count:  1
>>
>> The man page of cephfs says
>> ---snip---
>>        -u --stripe_unit
>>               Set the size of each stripe
>>
>>        -c --stripe_count
>>               Set the number of objects to stripe across
>>
>>        -s --object_size
>>               Set the size of the objects to stripe across
>> ---snip---
>>
>> What is the equivalent command on cephfs to 'rbd create --order 16' ?
>> Can you please give same explanation how "--stripe_unit --stripe_count --object_size"
>> should be used in combination to achieve different layouts on CephFS directories
>> (e.g. optimized for streaming, small sequential IOs, small random IOs)
>> ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Dieter
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