Afaik is the mv now fast because it is not moving any real data, just some meta data. Thus a real mv will be slow (only in the case between different pools) because it copies the data to the new pool and when successful deletes the old one. This will of course take a lot more time, but you at least are able to access the cephfs on both locations during this time and can fix things in your client access. My problem with mv now is that if you accidentally use it between data pools, it does not really move data. -----Original Message----- From: Robert LeBlanc [mailto:robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: vrijdag 28 juni 2019 18:30 To: Marc Roos Cc: ceph-users; jgarcia Subject: Re: Migrating a cephfs data pool Given that the MDS knows everything, it seems trivial to add a ceph 'mv' command to do this. I looked at using tiering to try and do the move, but I don't know how to tell cephfs that the data is now on the new pool instead of the old pool name. Since we can't take a long enough downtime to move hundreds of Terabytes, we need something that can be done online, and if it has a minute or two of downtime would be okay. ---------------- Robert LeBlanc PGP Fingerprint 79A2 9CA4 6CC4 45DD A904 C70E E654 3BB2 FA62 B9F1 On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 9:02 AM Marc Roos <M.Roos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 1. change data pool for a folder on the file system: setfattr -n ceph.dir.layout.pool -v fs_data.ec21 foldername 2. cp /oldlocation /foldername Remember that you preferably want to use mv, but this leaves (meta) data on the old pool, that is not what you want when you want to delete that pool. 3. When everything is copied-removed, you should end up with an empty datapool with zero objects. 4. Verify here with others, if you can just remove this one. I think this is a reliable technique to switch, because you use the basic cephfs functionality that supposed to work. I prefer that the ceph guys implement a mv that does what you expect from it. Now it acts more or less like a linking. -----Original Message----- From: Jorge Garcia [mailto:jgarcia@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: vrijdag 28 juni 2019 17:52 To: Marc Roos; ceph-users Subject: Re: Migrating a cephfs data pool Are you talking about adding the new data pool to the current filesystem? Like: $ ceph fs add_data_pool my_ceph_fs new_ec_pool I have done that, and now the filesystem shows up as having two data pools: $ ceph fs ls name: my_ceph_fs, metadata pool: cephfs_meta, data pools: [cephfs_data new_ec_pool ] but then I run into two issues: 1. How do I actually copy/move/migrate the data from the old pool to the new pool? 2. When I'm done moving the data, how do I get rid of the old data pool? I know there's a rm_data_pool option, but I have read on the mailing list that you can't remove the original data pool from a cephfs filesystem. The other option is to create a whole new cephfs with a new metadata pool and the new data pool, but creating multiple filesystems is still experimental and not allowed by default... On 6/28/19 8:28 AM, Marc Roos wrote: > > What about adding the new data pool, mounting it and then moving the > files? (read copy because move between data pools does not what you > expect it do) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jorge Garcia [mailto:jgarcia@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: vrijdag 28 juni 2019 17:26 > To: ceph-users > Subject: *****SPAM***** Migrating a cephfs data pool > > This seems to be an issue that gets brought up repeatedly, but I > haven't seen a definitive answer yet. So, at the risk of repeating a > question that has already been asked: > > How do you migrate a cephfs data pool to a new data pool? The obvious > case would be somebody that has set up a replicated pool for their > cephfs data and then wants to convert it to an erasure code pool. Is > there a simple way to do this, other than creating a whole new ceph > cluster and copying the data using rsync? > > Thanks for any clues > > Jorge > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com