Bug 1362431

Summary: [RFE] distribute OSDs and journal more predictably across the available disks
Product: [Red Hat Storage] Red Hat Storage Console Reporter: Daniel Horák <dahorak>
Component: CephAssignee: Shubhendu Tripathi <shtripat>
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Description Daniel Horák 2016-08-02 07:51:13 UTC 
Description of problem:
  There is some algorithm for distributing OSDs and journals across the available disks described in Bug 1334344.
  
  This algorithm takes care only about the disk type (SSD/HDD) and disk size.
  Then for the same disks with the same size, the journal and OSDs distribution is quite random, which is quite obfuscated and makes any debugging more difficult.

  It would be great if the algorithm will count also with the disk name/order and use disks with the same type/size alphabetically. So for example OSDs will be sorted in ascending order and similarly journal for those OSDs.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create cluster with more similar disks peer OSD node (all disks with the same size/type).

Actual results:
  Journals and OSDs are randomly distributed across available disks with the same size.
  The distribution is different between multiple nodes with the same disk configuration or between reinstalled clusters on the same nodes.

Expected results:
  Journal and OSDs will be predictably distributed accross available disks.

Additional info:
  see also: Bug 1334344 - OSDs and journal "randomly" and absurdly distributed across available disks
Comment 2 Shubhendu Tripathi 2018-11-19 05:40:07 UTC 
This product is EOL now