On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 5:03 AM Dietmar Rieder <dietmar.rieder@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a question regarding the default pool of a cephfs. > > According to the docs it is recommended to use a fast ssd replicated > pool as default pool for cephfs. I'm asking what are the space > requirements for storing the inode backtrace information? The actual recommendation is to use a replicated pool for the default data pool. Regular hard drives are fine for the storage device. > Let's say I have a 85 TiB replicated ssd pool (hot data) and as 3 PiB EC > data pool (cold data). > > Does it make sense to create a third pool as default pool which only > holds the inode backtrace information (what would be a good size), or is > it OK to use the ssd pool as default pool? Assuming your 85 TiB rep ssd pool is the default data pool already, use that. (I am curious why this question is asked now when the file system already has a significant amount of data? Are you thinking about recreating the fs?) -- Patrick Donnelly, Ph.D. He / Him / His Red Hat Partner Engineer IBM, Inc. GPG: 19F28A586F808C2402351B93C3301A3E258DD79D _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list -- ceph-users@xxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to ceph-users-leave@xxxxxxx
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