On 05/01/2017 02:23 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Shyam <srangana@xxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:srangana@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On 05/01/2017 02:00 PM, Pranith Kumar Karampuri wrote:
Splitting the bricks need not be a post factum decision, we can
start with larger brick counts, on a given node/disk count, and
hence spread these bricks to newer nodes/bricks as they are
added.
Let's say we have 1 disk, we format it with say XFS and that
becomes a
brick at the moment. Just curious, what will be the relationship
between
brick to disk in this case(If we leave out LVM for this example)?
I would assume the relation is brick to provided FS directory (not
brick to disk, we do not control that at the moment, other than
providing best practices around the same).
Hmmm... as per my understanding, if we do this then 'df' I guess will
report wrong values? available-size/free-size etc will be counted more
than once?
This is true even today, if anyone uses 2 bricks from the same mount.
I forgot a converse though, we could take a disk and partition it (LVM
thinp volumes) and use each of those partitions as bricks, avoiding the
problem of df double counting. Further thinp will help us expand
available space to other bricks on the same disk, as we destroy older
bricks or create new ones to accommodate the moving pieces (needs more
careful thought though, but for sure is a nightmare without thinp).
I am not so much a fan of large number of thinp partitions, so as long
as that is reasonably in control, we can possibly still use it. The big
advantage though is, we nuke a thinp volume when the brick that uses
that partition, moves out of that disk, and we get the space back,
rather than having or to something akin to rm -rf on the backend to
reclaim space.
Today, gluster takes in a directory on host as a brick, and assuming
we retain that, we would need to split this into multiple sub-dirs
and use each sub-dir as a brick internally.
All these sub-dirs thus created are part of the same volume (due to
our current snapshot mapping requirements).
--
Pranith
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