ceph/doc/rados/operations/erasure-code-profile.rst
Nathan Cutler aea9fa01ae doc: globally change CRUSH ruleset to CRUSH rule
Since kraken, Ceph enforces a 1:1 correspondence between CRUSH ruleset and
CRUSH rule, so effectively ruleset and rule are the same thing, although
the term "ruleset" still survives - notably in the CRUSH rule itself, where it
effectively denotes the number of the rule.

This commit updates the documentation to more faithfully reflect the current
state of the code.

Fixes: http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/20559
Signed-off-by: Nathan Cutler <ncutler@suse.com>
2017-12-11 17:15:23 +01:00

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.. _erasure-code-profiles:
=====================
Erasure code profiles
=====================
Erasure code is defined by a **profile** and is used when creating an
erasure coded pool and the associated CRUSH rule.
The **default** erasure code profile (which is created when the Ceph
cluster is initialized) provides the same level of redundancy as two
copies but requires 25% less disk space. It is described as a profile
with **k=2** and **m=1**, meaning the information is spread over three
OSD (k+m == 3) and one of them can be lost.
To improve redundancy without increasing raw storage requirements, a
new profile can be created. For instance, a profile with **k=10** and
**m=4** can sustain the loss of four (**m=4**) OSDs by distributing an
object on fourteen (k+m=14) OSDs. The object is first divided in
**10** chunks (if the object is 10MB, each chunk is 1MB) and **4**
coding chunks are computed, for recovery (each coding chunk has the
same size as the data chunk, i.e. 1MB). The raw space overhead is only
40% and the object will not be lost even if four OSDs break at the
same time.
.. _list of available plugins:
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
erasure-code-jerasure
erasure-code-isa
erasure-code-lrc
erasure-code-shec
osd erasure-code-profile set
============================
To create a new erasure code profile::
ceph osd erasure-code-profile set {name} \
[{directory=directory}] \
[{plugin=plugin}] \
[{stripe_unit=stripe_unit}] \
[{key=value} ...] \
[--force]
Where:
``{directory=directory}``
:Description: Set the **directory** name from which the erasure code
plugin is loaded.
:Type: String
:Required: No.
:Default: /usr/lib/ceph/erasure-code
``{plugin=plugin}``
:Description: Use the erasure code **plugin** to compute coding chunks
and recover missing chunks. See the `list of available
plugins`_ for more information.
:Type: String
:Required: No.
:Default: jerasure
``{stripe_unit=stripe_unit}``
:Description: The amount of data in a data chunk, per stripe. For
example, a profile with 2 data chunks and stripe_unit=4K
would put the range 0-4K in chunk 0, 4K-8K in chunk 1,
then 8K-12K in chunk 0 again. This should be a multiple
of 4K for best performance. The default value is taken
from the monitor config option
``osd_pool_erasure_code_stripe_unit`` when a pool is
created. The stripe_width of a pool using this profile
will be the number of data chunks multiplied by this
stripe_unit.
:Type: String
:Required: No.
``{key=value}``
:Description: The semantic of the remaining key/value pairs is defined
by the erasure code plugin.
:Type: String
:Required: No.
``--force``
:Description: Override an existing profile by the same name, and allow
setting a non-4K-aligned stripe_unit.
:Type: String
:Required: No.
osd erasure-code-profile rm
============================
To remove an erasure code profile::
ceph osd erasure-code-profile rm {name}
If the profile is referenced by a pool, the deletion will fail.
osd erasure-code-profile get
============================
To display an erasure code profile::
ceph osd erasure-code-profile get {name}
osd erasure-code-profile ls
===========================
To list the names of all erasure code profiles::
ceph osd erasure-code-profile ls