Re: [PATCH 0/3] block I/O when cluster is full

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On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Josh Durgin <josh.durgin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/03/2013 03:12 PM, Josh Durgin wrote:
>>
>> These patches allow rbd to block writes instead of returning errors
>> when OSDs are full enough that the FULL flag is set in the osd map.
>> This avoids filesystems on top of rbd getting confused by transient
>> EIOs if the cluster oscillates between full and non-full.
>>
>> These are also available in the wip-full branch of ceph-client.git.
>>
>> Josh Durgin (3):
>>    libceph: block I/O when PAUSE or FULL osd map flags are set
>>    libceph: add an option to configure client behavior when osds are
>>      full
>>    rbd: document rbd-specific options
>
>
> Due to a race condition between clients and osds in handling maps
> marked FULL, it's not feasible to offer the 'error' option, so patches
> 2 and 3 can be ignored.
>
> http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/6938

It's not clear to me — are you going to assume all ENOSPC means the
map is marked as full and intercept it, or that you can't reliably
block IO so don't bother trying?
-Greg
Software Engineer #42 @ http://inktank.com | http://ceph.com
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