remove btrfs recommendation

Bug #1016435 reported by Dimitri John Ledkov
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ceph (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

remove recommending btrfs

Upstream doesn't recommend it for production use. Btrfs is unstable and does result in many warnings displayed specifically with CEPH's workload. Performance degrades over time, under ceph's workload. (see mailing list & cross posts from ceps to btrfs).

14:32 <xnox> On top of which filesystem is it currently recommended to run CEPH? btrfs?!
14:32 <pmjdebruijn> last time we tried btrfs still had issue
14:33 <pmjdebruijn> we are running it on ext4
14:33 <pmjdebruijn> already we have a limited usecase
14:33 <pmjdebruijn> although* (not already)
14:33 <pmjdebruijn> xnox: stick around and see what others have to say
14:33 <filoo_absynth> /sign
14:33 * xnox will be idle here for a bit ;-)
14:34 <filoo_absynth> tried btrfs, crashed badly. used ext4, crashed badly too, but it wasn't the FS's fault
14:45 <ao> ext4 without journal just got a bug fixed in 3.2.18 that can hang osd. We are just now retrying with 3.2.18.
14:48 <ao> btrfs also crashed here in all our tests.
15:26 <oliver> Hi... I will hope that there is no "mission-critical" reason, that 0.47 tarballs are not there yet ;) ?
15:29 <filoo_absynth> just out of curiosity: who here is from germany, the netherlands, belgium or eastern france?
15:30 * ao is from Germany.
15:31 <pmjdebruijn> netherlands here
15:34 <pmjdebruijn> filoo_absynth: why btw?
15:41 <nhm> good morning #ceph
15:42 <oliver> nhm: I have a wget-loop running for 0.47*.... Do you know, when it will be terminated?
15:42 <oliver> nhm: good afternoon ;)=
15:43 <nhm> oliver: when you stop it? ;)
15:43 <oliver> Hehe
15:44 <nhm> oliver: honestly no idea. I haven't been focusing on the releases much.
15:44 <nhm> oliver: oh, supposedly it was released 8 hours ago!
15:44 <nhm> http://ceph.com/releases/v0-47-released/
15:45 <nhm> xnox: I'd give xfs a try.

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Changed in ceph (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
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RoyK (roysk) wrote :

IMHO recommending btrfs for something productional, isn't healthy

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Paolo Rotolo (paolorotolo) wrote :

Hi,
Thanks for the report.
I've attached a patch to fix this issue.

Regards.

tags: added: patch
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Christian Parpart (trapni) wrote :

can at least one of all of you, saying "crashed badly", tell me what you exactly mean? I am looking into using Btrfs for data storage and ideally with Ceph, and I'd like to know what you mean by just the word "crash" and how current this state is :-)

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Please also report this as a Debian bug. This is the kind of change which tends to get dropped during merges/syncs as "not important enough to have a delta for"

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ceph - 0.47.2-0ubuntu3

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ceph (0.47.2-0ubuntu3) quantal; urgency=low

  * Remove btrfs-tools from Recommends (LP: #1016435).
 -- Paolo Rotolo <email address hidden> Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:31:20 +0100

Changed in ceph (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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