Emergency demotions will be required whenever writes breach the hi-watermark. Emergency demotions are required to avoid ENOSPC in case of continuous writes that originate on the hot tier. There are two concerns in this area: 1. enforcing max-cycle-time during emergency demotions max-cycle-time is the time the tiering daemon spends in promotions or demotions I tend to think that the tiering daemon skip this check for the emergency situation and continue demotions until the watermark drops below the hi-watermark 2. file demotion policy I tend to think that evicting the largest file with the most recent *write* should be chosen for eviction when write-freq-threshold is NON-ZERO. Choosing a least written file is just going to delay file migration of an active file which might consume hot tier disk space resulting in a ENOSPC, in the worst case. In cases where write-freq-threshold are ZERO, the most recently *written* file can be chosen for eviction. In the case of choosing the largest file within the write-freq-threshold, a stat() on the files would be required to calculate the number of files that need to be demoted to take the watermark below the hi-watermark. Finding the number of most recently written files to demote could also help make demotions in parallel rather than in the sequential manner currently in place. Comments are requested. -- Milind _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
