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Read & Witte cache

It would be nice tot beste able to use bcache or dmcache for optimize the read and write performance with bluestore.

It is something we are following. We just need for this technology (bcache  or dm-cache) to mature and see mainstream adoption within Ceph.

Ok Thanks,

Any idea on timing ?  Could you in meantime give us a choise between filestore and bluestore ?  In my configuration FileStore performs better than BlueStore.

In every node i have a nvme drive that was used as journal for 4 1tb sata-disks.  The nvme is a 1TB disk.  At this moment with bluestore it is only used for 80 GB db/wal.  I would like to use it again as journal disk for FileStore.

Regards

Raf

No immediate plans until there is general adoption of this. During a presentation on Bluestore last year, Sage Weil the principal architect of Ceph, did state block level caching support via bcache or dm-cache will be on the roadmap, but so far there is no concrete work done by the Ceph developers. There are already users who implemented this in their clusters, but not all had good success..so it is really better to wait.

re Filestore support, it may be possible, but logically all the Ceph dev focus is on Bluestore (and beyond) , there is ongoing work for performance optimizations, so in that regards in may not make sense to go back.