Re: Best method to limit snapshot/clone space overhead

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On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Jason Dillaman <dillaman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I am looking for a way to alleviate the overhead of RBD snapshots/clones for
>> some time.
>>
>> In our scenario there are a few “master” volumes that contain production
>> data, and are frequently snapshotted and cloned for dev/qa use. Those
>> snapshots/clones live for a few days to a few weeks before they get dropped,
>> and they sometimes grow very fast (databases, etc.).
>>
>> With the default 4MB object size there seems to be huge overhead involved
>> with this, could someone give me some hints on how to solve that?
>>
>
> Do you have any statistics (or can you gather any statistics) that indicate the percentage of block-size, zeroed extents within the clone images' RADOS objects?  If there is a large amount of waste, it might be possible / worthwhile to optimize how RBD handles copy-on-write operations against the clone.

I think the fiemap/seek_hole could benefit rbd objects after
recovering or backfill mostly.

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Wheat
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