On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 4:56 PM Jason Dillaman <jdillama@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 3:28 PM Void Star Nill <void.star.nill@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > My understanding is that the time to format an RBD volume is not > dependent > > on its size as the RBD volumes are thin provisioned. Is this correct? > > > > For example, formatting a 1G volume should take almost the same time as > > formatting a 1TB volume - although accounting for differences in > latencies > > due to load on the Ceph cluster. Is that a fair assumption? > > Yes, that is a fair comparison when creating the RBD image. However, a > format operation might initialize and discard extents on the disk, so > a larger disk will take longer to format. Thanks for the response Jason. Could you please explain a bit more on the the format operation? Is there a relative time that we can determine based on the volume size? Thanks Shridhar > > > Thanks, > > Shridhar > > _______________________________________________ > > ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx > > > > > -- > Jason > > _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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