Re: Problem with data distribution

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On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 1 Jul 2013, at 17:37, Gregory Farnum wrote:
>
>> Oh, that's out of date! PG splitting is supported in Cuttlefish:
>> "ceph osd pool set <foo> pg_num <number>"
>> http://ceph.com/docs/master/rados/operations/control/#osd-subsystem
>
> Ah, so:
>   pg_num: The placement group number.
> means
>   pg_num: The number of placement groups.
>
> Perhaps worth demystifying for those hard of understanding such as
> myself.
>
> I'm still not quite sure how that relates to pgp_num.

Pools are sharded into placement groups. That's the pg_num. Those
placement groups can be placed all independently, or as if there were
a smaller number of placement groups (this is so you can double the
number of PGs but not move any data until the splitting is done).
-Greg
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