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Hard Disk and File System Recommendations
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.. index:: hard drive preparation
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Hard Drive Prep
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===============
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Ceph aims for data safety, which means that when the :term:`Ceph Client`
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receives notice that data was written to a storage drive, that data was actually
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written to the storage drive. For old kernels (<2.6.33), disable the write cache
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if the journal is on a raw drive. Newer kernels should work fine.
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Use ``hdparm`` to disable write caching on the hard disk::
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sudo hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda 0
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In production environments, we recommend running a :term:`Ceph OSD Daemon` with
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separate drives for the operating system and the data. If you run data and an
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operating system on a single disk, we recommend creating a separate partition
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for your data.
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.. index:: filesystems
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Filesystems
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Ceph OSD Daemons rely heavily upon the stability and performance of the
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underlying filesystem.
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.. note:: We currently recommend ``XFS`` for production deployments.
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We recommend ``btrfs`` for testing, development, and any
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non-critical deployments. We believe that ``btrfs`` has the correct
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feature set and roadmap to serve Ceph in the long-term, but ``XFS``
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and ``ext4`` provide the necessary stability for today's deployments.
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``btrfs`` development is proceeding rapidly: users should be
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comfortable installing the latest released upstream kernels and be
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able to track development activity for critical bug fixes.
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Ceph OSD Daemons depend on the Extended Attributes (XATTRs) of the underlying
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file system for various forms of internal object state and metadata. The
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underlying filesystem must provide sufficient capacity for XATTRs. ``btrfs``
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does not bound the total xattr metadata stored with a file. ``XFS`` has a
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relatively large limit (64 KB) that most deployments won't encounter, but the
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``ext4`` is too small to be usable.
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You should always add the following line to the ``[osd]`` section of your
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``ceph.conf`` file for ``ext4`` filesystems; you can optionally use
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it for ``btrfs`` and ``XFS``.::
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filestore xattr use omap = true
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Filesystem Background Info
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==========================
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The ``XFS`` and ``btrfs`` file systems provide numerous advantages in highly
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scaled data storage environments when `compared`_ to ``ext3`` and ``ext4``.
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Both ``XFS`` and ``btrfs`` are `journaling file systems`_, which means that
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they are more robust when recovering from crashes, power outages, etc. These
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filesystems journal all of the changes they will make before performing writes.
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``XFS`` was developed for Silicon Graphics, and is a mature and stable
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filesystem. By contrast, ``btrfs`` is a relatively new file system that aims
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to address the long-standing wishes of system administrators working with
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large scale data storage environments. ``btrfs`` has some unique features
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and advantages compared to other Linux filesystems.
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``btrfs`` is a `copy-on-write`_ filesystem. It supports file creation
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timestamps and checksums that verify metadata integrity, so it can detect
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bad copies of data and fix them with the good copies. The copy-on-write
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capability means that ``btrfs`` can support snapshots that are writable.
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``btrfs`` supports transparent compression and other features.
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``btrfs`` also incorporates multi-device management into the file system,
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which enables you to support heterogeneous disk storage infrastructure,
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data allocation policies. The community also aims to provide ``fsck``,
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deduplication, and data encryption support in the future. This compelling
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list of features makes ``btrfs`` the ideal choice for Ceph clusters.
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.. _copy-on-write: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write
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.. _compared: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
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.. _journaling file systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system
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