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<div class="">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?
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<div class="">On Sep 11, 2018, at 9:12 AM, Marc A Kaplan <<a href="mailto:makaplan@us.ibm.com" class="">makaplan@us.ibm.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class=""><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif" class="">Metadata is anything besides the data contents of your files.</span><br class="">
<span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif" class="">Inodes, directories, indirect blocks, allocation maps, log data ... are the biggies.</span><br class="">
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<span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif" class="">Apparently, --iohist may sometimes distinguish some metadata as "inode", "logData", ... that doesn't mean those aren't metadata also.</span><br class="">
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<span style=" font-size:9pt;color:#5f5f5f;font-family:sans-serif" class="">Subject: </span><span style=" font-size:9pt;font-family:sans-serif" class="">[gpfsug-discuss] RAID type for system pool</span><br class="">
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<span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica" class=""><b class="">Subject: Re: [gpfsug-discuss] RAID type for system pool</b></span><br class="">
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<span style=" font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">Hi All,</span><span style=" font-size:12pt" class=""></span><br class="">
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<span style=" font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">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.</span><br class="">
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<span style=" font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">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:</span><br class="">
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<span style=" font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">11:22:13.931117 W inode 4:299844163 1 0.448 srv dm-12 <redacted></span><br class="">
<span style=" font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">11:22:13.932344 R metadata 4:36659676 4 0.307 srv dm-12 <redacted></span><br class="">
<span style=" font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">11:22:13.932005 W logData 4:49676176 1 0.726 srv dm-12 <redacted>
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<span style=" font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">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.</span><br class="">
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<span style=" font-size:8pt;font-family:Helvetica" class="">This is on a filesystem that currently uses 512 byte inodes, if that matters. Thanks…</span><br class="">
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