[ceph-users] Small RGW objects and RADOS 64KB minimun size

Bonjour, Reading Karan's blog post about benchmarking the insertion of billions objects to Ceph via S3 / RGW[0] from last year, it reads: There also is a mail thread dated 2018 on this topic as well, with the same conclusion although using RADOS directly and not RGW[3]. I read the RGW data layout page in the documentation[1] and concluded that by default every object inserted with S3 / RGW will indeed use at least 64kb. A pull request from last year[2] seems to confirm it and also suggests modifying bluestore_min_alloc_size_hdd  has adverse side effects. That being said, I'm curious to know if people developed strategies to cope with this overhead. Someone mentioned packing objects together client side to make them larger. But maybe there are simpler ways to do the same? Cheers [0] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/scaling-ceph-billion-objects-and-beyond [1] https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/radosgw/layout/ [2] https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/32809 [3] https://www.spinics.net/lists/ceph-users/msg45755.html -- Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre