On Sat, Apr 1, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 1-4-2017 21:59, Wido den Hollander wrote: >> >>> Op 31 maart 2017 om 19:15 schreef Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >>> >>> >>> On 31-3-2017 17:32, Wido den Hollander wrote: >>>> Hi Willem Jan, >>>> >>>>> Op 30 maart 2017 om 13:56 schreef Willem Jan Withagen >>>>> <wjw@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm pleased to announce that my efforts to port to FreeBSD have >>>>> resulted in a ceph-devel port commit in the ports tree. >>>>> >>>>> https://www.freshports.org/net/ceph-devel/ >>>>> >>>> >>>> Awesome work! I don't touch FreeBSD that much, but I can imagine that >>>> people want this. >>>> >>>> Out of curiosity, does this run on ZFS under FreeBSD? Or what >>>> Filesystem would you use behind FileStore with this? Or does >>>> BlueStore work? >>> >>> Since I'm a huge ZFS fan, that is what I run it on. >> >> Cool! The ZIL, ARC and L2ARC can actually make that very fast. Interesting! > > Right, ZIL is magic, and more or equal to the journal now used with OSDs > for exactly the same reason. Sad thing is that a write is now 3* > journaled: 1* by Ceph, and 2* by ZFS. Which means that the used > bandwidth to the SSDs is double of what it could be. > > Had some discussion about this, but disabling the Ceph journal is not > just setting an option. Although I would like to test performance of an > OSD with just the ZFS journal. But I expect that the OSD journal is > rather firmly integrated. Disabling the OSD journal will never be viable. The journal is also necessary for transactions and batch updates which cannot be done atomically in FileStore. This is great work Willem. I'm especially looking forward to seeing BlueStore performance on a ZVol. -- Patrick Donnelly _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com
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