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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> I’m trying to finalize my file system configuration for production. I’ll be moving 3-3.5B files from my legacy storage to ESS (about 1.8PB). The legacy file systems are block size 256k, 8k subblocks.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Target ESS is a GL4, 8TB drives (2.2PB using 8+2p)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">For file systems configured on the ESS, the vdisk block size must equal the file system block size. Using 8+2p, the smallest block size is 512K. Looking at the overall file size histogram, a block
size of 1MB might be a good compromise in efficiency and sub block size (32k subblock). With 4K inodes, somewhere around 60-70% of the current files end up in inodes. Of the files in the range 4k-32K, those are the ones that would potentially “waste” some
space because they are smaller than the sub block but too big for an inode. That’s roughly 10-15% of the files. This ends up being a compromise because of our inability to use the V5 file system format</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> (clients still at
CentOS 6/Scale 4.2.3)<span style="color:black">.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">For metadata, the file systems are currently using about 15TB of space (replicated, across roughly 1.7PB usage). This represents a mix of 256b and 4k inodes (70% 256b). Assuming a 8x increase
the upper limit of needs would be 128TB. Since some of that is already in 4K inodes, I feel an allocation of 90-100 TB (4-5% of data space) is closer to reality. I don’t know if having a separate metadata pool makes sense if I’m using the V4 format, in which
the block size of metadata and data is the same.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Summary, I think the best options are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Option (1): 2 file systems of 1PB each. 1PB data pool, 50TB system pool, 1MB block size, 2x replicated metadata<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Option (2): 2 file systems of 1PB each. 1PB data/metadata pool, 1MB block size, 2x replicated metadata (preferred, then I don’t need to manage my metadata space)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bob Oesterlin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sr Principal Storage Engineer, Nuance<o:p></o:p></p>
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