Haven't seen any comments in a week. I'm going to cross-post this to ceph-devel Dear ceph-devel in an effort to simplify ceph-ansible I removed the code that sets up directory backed OSDs. We found our that it was being used in the following way. I would like to hear thoughts about this approach pro and con. cheers, G On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Michael Gugino <Michael.Gugino@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > All, > > Thank you for the responses and consideration. What we are doing is > creating lvm volumes, mounting them, and using the mounts as directories > for ceph-ansible. Our primary concern is the use of lvmcache. We’re > using faster drives for the cache and slower drives for the backing > volumes. > > We try to keep as few local patches as practical, and our initial > rollout of lvmcache + ceph-ansible steered us towards osd_directory > scenario. Currently, ceph-ansible does not allow use to use lvm in the > way that we desire, but we are looking into submitting a PR to go that > direction (at some point). > > As far as using the stable branches, I’m not entirely sure what our > strategy going forward will be. Currently we are maintaining ceph-ansible > branches based on ceph releases, not ceph-ansible releases. > > > Michael Gugino > Cloud Powered > (540) 846-0304 Mobile > > Walmart ✻ > Saving people money so they can live better. > > > > > > On 4/25/17, 4:51 PM, "Sebastien Han" <shan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>One other argument to remove the osd directory scenario is BlueStore. >>Luminous is around the corner and we strongly hope it'll be the >>default object store. >> >>On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 7:40 PM, Gregory Meno <gmeno@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Michael, >>> >>> I am naturally interested in the specifics of your use-case and would >>> love to hear more about it. >>> I think the desire to remove this scenario from the stable-2.2 release >>> is low considering what you just shared. >>> Would it be fair to ask that sharing your setup be the justification >>> for restoring this functionality? >>> Are you using the stable released bits already? I recommend doing so. >>> >>> +Seb +Alfredo >>> >>> cheers, >>> Gregory >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Michael Gugino >>> <Michael.Gugino@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Ceph-ansible community, >>>> >>>> I see that recently osd-directory scenario was removed from >>>>deployment >>>> options. We use this option in production, I will be submitting a >>>>patch >>>> and a small fix to re-add that scenario. We believe our use-case is >>>> non-trivial, and we are hoping to share our setup with the community in >>>> the near future once we get approval. >>>> >>>> Thank you >>>> >>>> >>>> Michael Gugino >>>> Cloud Powered >>>> (540) 846-0304 Mobile >>>> >>>> Walmart ✻ >>>> Saving people money so they can live better. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 4/18/17, 3:41 PM, "Ceph-ansible on behalf of Sebastien Han" >>>> <ceph-ansible-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of shan@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>>wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hi everyone, >>>>> >>>>>We are close from releasing the new ceph-ansible stable release. >>>>>We are currently in a heavy QA phase where we are pushing new tags in >>>>>the format of v2.2.x. >>>>>The latest tag already points to stable-2.2 branch. >>>>> >>>>>Stay tuned, stable-2.2 is just around the corner. >>>>>Thanks! >>>>> >>>>>-- >>>>>Cheers >>>>> >>>>>–––––– >>>>>Sébastien Han >>>>>Principal Software Engineer, Storage Architect >>>>> >>>>>"Always give 100%. Unless you're giving blood." >>>>> >>>>>Mail: seb@xxxxxxxxxx >>>>>Address: 11 bis, rue Roquépine - 75008 Paris >>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>Ceph-ansible mailing list >>>>>Ceph-ansible@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>>http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-ansible-ceph.com >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Ceph-ansible mailing list >>>> Ceph-ansible@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-ansible-ceph.com >> >> >> >>-- >>Cheers >> >>–––––– >>Sébastien Han >>Principal Software Engineer, Storage Architect >> >>"Always give 100%. Unless you're giving blood." >> >>Mail: seb@xxxxxxxxxx >>Address: 11 bis, rue Roquépine - 75008 Paris > -- 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
