Hi Patrick, If your hardware is new and you are confident in the support of your hardware and can consider future expansion, you can possibly start with a k=3 and m=2. It is true that we generally prefer to divide (k) the data by an exponent 2, but k=3 does the job Be careful, it is difficult/painful to change profiles later (need data migration). ________________________________________________________ Cordialement, *David CASIER* ________________________________________________________ Le mar. 5 déc. 2023 à 12:35, Patrick Begou < Patrick.Begou@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> a écrit :
Ok, so I've misunderstood the meaning of failure domain. If there is no way to request using 2 osd/node and node as failure domain, with 5 nodes k=3+m=1 is not secure enough and I will have to use k=2+m=2, so like a raid1 setup. A little bit better than replication in the point of view of global storage capacity.
Patrick
Le 05/12/2023 à 12:19, David C. a écrit :
Hi,
To return to my comparison with SANs, on a SAN you have spare disks to repair a failed disk.
On Ceph, you therefore need at least one more host (k+m+1).
If we take into consideration the formalities/delivery times of a new server, k+m+2 is not luxury (Depending on the growth of your volume).
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Le mar. 5 déc. 2023 à 11:17, Patrick Begou < Patrick.Begou@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> a écrit :
Hi Robert,
Le 05/12/2023 à 10:05, Robert Sander a écrit :
On 12/5/23 10:01, duluxoz wrote:
Thanks David, I knew I had something wrong :-)
Just for my own edification: Why is k=2, m=1 not recommended for production? Considered to "fragile", or something else?
It is the same as a replicated pool with size=2. Only one host can go down. After that you risk to lose data.
Erasure coding is possible with a cluster size of 10 nodes or more. With smaller clusters you have to go with replicated pools.
Could you explain why 10 nodes are required for EC ?
On my side, I'm working on building my first (small) Ceph cluster using E.C. and I was thinking about 5 nodes and k=4 m=2. With a failure domain on host and several osd by nodes, in my mind this setup may run degraded with 3 nodes using 2 distincts osd by node and the ultimate possibility to loose an additional node without loosing data. Of course with sufficient free storage available.
Am I totally wrong in my first ceph approach ?
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