On 1/30/19 9:12 PM, Void Star Nill wrote: > Hello, > > When a Ceph block device is created with a given size, does Ceph > allocate all that space right away or is that allocated as the user > starts storing the data? > > I want to know if we can over provision the Ceph cluster. For example, > if we have a cluster with 10G available space, am I allowed to create > only 10, 1G volumes? Or can I over provision and assume that each > volume is going to be used only up to 50% and allow creation of 20 1G > volumes? > Data is not allocated. You can overprovision with RBD as much as you like. You can provision 1PB of storage on a cluster with just 100TB of usable capacity. Ceph/RBD won't prevent you from doing so. Wido > Thanks, > Shridhar > > > _______________________________________________ > ceph-users mailing list > ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com