Re: Migrating cephfs data pools and/or mounting multiple filesystems belonging to the same cluster

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On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 9:35 PM Alessandro De Salvo
<Alessandro.DeSalvo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> Il 13/06/18 14:40, Yan, Zheng ha scritto:
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 7:06 PM Alessandro De Salvo
> > <Alessandro.DeSalvo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to migrate a cephfs data pool to a different one in order to
> >> reconfigure with new pool parameters. I've found some hints but no
> >> specific documentation to migrate pools.
> >>
> >> I'm currently trying with rados export + import, but I get errors like
> >> these:
> >>
> >> Write #-9223372036854775808:00000000:::100001e1007.00000000:head#
> >> omap_set_header failed: (95) Operation not supported
> >>
> >> The command I'm using is the following:
> >>
> >>    rados export -p cephfs_data | rados import -p cephfs_data_new -
> >>
> >> So, I have a few questions:
> >>
> >>
> >> 1) would it work to swap the cephfs data pools by renaming them while
> >> the fs cluster is down?
> >>
> >> 2) how can I copy the old data pool into a new one without errors like
> >> the ones above?
> >>
> > This won't work as you expected.  some cephfs metadata records ID of data pool.
>
> This is was suspecting too, hence the question, so thanks for confirming it.
> Basically, once a cephfs filesystem is created the pool and structure
> are immutable. This is not good, though.
>
> >
> >> 3) plain copy from a fs to another one would also work, but I didn't
> >> find a way to tell the ceph fuse clients how to mount different
> >> filesystems in the same cluster, any documentation on it?
> >>
> > ceph-fuse /mnt/ceph --client_mds_namespace=cephfs_name
>
> In the meantime I also found the same option for fuse and tried it. It
> works with fuse, but it seems it's not possible to export via
> nfs-ganesha multiple filesystems.
>

put client_mds_namespace option to client section of ceph.conf  (the
machine the run ganesha)


> Anyone tried it?
>
>
> >
> >> 4) even if I found a way to mount via fuse different filesystems
> >> belonging to the same cluster, is this feature stable enough or is it
> >> still super-experimental?
> >>
> > very stable
>
> Very good!
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>      Alessandro
>
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >>
> >>       Alessandro
> >>
> >>
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