[gpfsug-discuss] RAID type for system pool
Ed Wahl
ewahl at osc.edu
Tue Sep 11 19:48:26 BST 2018
That isn't necessarily true. The ONLY way to ensure you aren't saving
tiny little <~400 byte files is to have encryption enabled with the
advanced license. There are QUITE a few types of MD that can be saved,
just look at the output from a file using mmlsattr -L...
Ed
On 09/11/2018 11:48 AM, Buterbaugh, Kevin L wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> Understood … I’m just trying to understand why some I/O’s are flagged
> as metadata, while others are flagged as inode?!? Since this
> filesystem uses 512 byte inodes, there is no data content from any
> files involved (for a metadata only disk), correct? Thanks…
>
> Kevin
>
>> On Sep 11, 2018, at 9:12 AM, Marc A Kaplan <makaplan at us.ibm.com
>> <mailto:makaplan at us.ibm.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Metadata is anything besides the data contents of your files.
>> Inodes, directories, indirect blocks, allocation maps, log data ...
>> are the biggies.
>>
>> Apparently, --iohist may sometimes distinguish some metadata as
>> "inode", "logData", ... that doesn't mean those aren't metadata also.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: "Buterbaugh, Kevin L" <Kevin.Buterbaugh at Vanderbilt.Edu
>> <mailto:Kevin.Buterbaugh at Vanderbilt.Edu>>
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>> Date: 09/10/2018 03:12 PM
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>> *From: * _gpfsug-discuss-owner at spectrumscale.org_
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>> *Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] RAID type for system pool*
>> *Date: * September 10, 2018 at 11:35:05 AM CDT
>> *To: * _klb at accre.vanderbilt.edu_ <mailto:klb at accre.vanderbilt.edu>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> So while I’m waiting for the purchase of new hardware to go thru, I’m
>> trying to gather more data about the current workload. One of the
>> things I’m trying to do is get a handle on the ratio of reads versus
>> writes for my metadata.
>>
>> I’m using “mmdiag —iohist” … in this case “dm-12” is one of my
>> metadataOnly disks and I’m running this on the primary NSD server for
>> that NSD. I’m seeing output like:
>>
>> 11:22:13.931117 W inode 4:299844163 1 0.448 srv
>> dm-12 <redacted>
>> 11:22:13.932344 R metadata 4:36659676 4 0.307 srv
>> dm-12 <redacted>
>> 11:22:13.932005 W logData 4:49676176 1 0.726 srv
>> dm-12 <redacted>
>>
>> And I’m confused as to the difference between “inode” and “metadata”
>> (I at least _think_ I understand “logData”)?!? The man page for
>> mmdiag doesn’t help and I’ve not found anything useful yet in my
>> Googling.
>>
>> This is on a filesystem that currently uses 512 byte inodes, if that
>> matters. Thanks…
>>
>> Kevin
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