Ceph Shared File System CRD

Rook allows creation and customization of shared file systems through the custom resource definitions (CRDs). The following settings are available for Ceph file systems.

Samples

Replicated

NOTE This example requires you to have at least 3 OSDs each on a different node. This is because the replicated.size: 3 (in both defined Pools) will require at least 3 OSDs and as failureDomain setting to host (default), each OSD needs to be on a different nodes. In case you added another location type to your nodes in the Storage Selection Settings (e.g. rack), you can also specify this type as your failure domain.

  1. apiVersion: ceph.rook.io/v1
  2. kind: CephFilesystem
  3. metadata:
  4.   name: myfs
  5.   namespace: rook-ceph
  6. spec:
  7.   metadataPool:
  8.     failureDomain: host
  9.     replicated:
  10.       size: 3
  11.   dataPools:
  12.     - failureDomain: host
  13.       replicated:
  14.         size: 3
  15.   metadataServer:
  16.     activeCount: 1
  17.     activeStandby: true
  18.     # A key/value list of annotations
  19.     annotations:
  20.     #  key: value
  21.     placement:
  22.     #  nodeAffinity:
  23.     #    requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution:
  24.     #      nodeSelectorTerms:
  25.     #      - matchExpressions:
  26.     #        - key: role
  27.     #          operator: In
  28.     #          values:
  29.     #          - mds-node
  30.     #  tolerations:
  31.     #  - key: mds-node
  32.     #    operator: Exists
  33.     #  podAffinity:
  34.     #  podAntiAffinity:
  35.     resources:
  36.     #  limits:
  37.     #    cpu: "500m"
  38.     #    memory: "1024Mi"
  39.     #  requests:
  40.     #    cpu: "500m"
  41.     #    memory: "1024Mi"

(These definitions can also be found in the filesystem.yaml file)

Erasure Coded

If you want to use erasure coded pool with filesystem, your OSDs must use bluestore as their storeType. Additionally erasure coded can only be used as a data pool and not as a metadata pool. The metadata pool must still be a replicated pool.

The sample below requires that you have at least 3 bluestore OSDs on different nodes. For erasure coded to make sense, you need at least three OSDs for the below dataPools config to work.

  1. apiVersion: ceph.rook.io/v1
  2. kind: CephFilesystem
  3. metadata:
  4.   name: myfs-ec
  5.   namespace: rook-ceph
  6. spec:
  7.   metadataPool:
  8.     replicated:
  9.       size: 3
  10.   dataPools:
  11.     - erasureCoded:
  12.         dataChunks: 2
  13.         codingChunks: 1
  14.   metadataServer:
  15.     activeCount: 1
  16.     activeStandby: true

(These definitions can also be found in the filesystem-ec.yaml file)

File System Settings

Metadata

  • name: The name of the file system to create, which will be reflected in the pool and other resource names.
  • namespace: The namespace of the Rook cluster where the file system is created.

Pools

The pools allow all of the settings defined in the Pool CRD spec. For more details, see the Pool CRD settings. In the example above, there must be at least three hosts (size 3) and at least eight devices (6 data + 2 coding chunks) in the cluster.

  • metadataPool: The settings used to create the file system metadata pool. Must use replication.
  • dataPools: The settings to create the file system data pools. If multiple pools are specified, Rook will add the pools to the file system. Assigning users or files to a pool is left as an exercise for the reader with the CephFS documentation. The data pools can use replication or erasure coding. If erasure coding pools are specified, the cluster must be running with bluestore enabled on the OSDs.

Metadata Server Settings

The metadata server settings correspond to the MDS daemon settings.

  • activeCount: The number of active MDS instances. As load increases, CephFS will automatically partition the file system across the MDS instances. Rook will create double the number of MDS instances as requested by the active count. The extra instances will be in standby mode for failover.
  • activeStandby: If true, the extra MDS instances will be in active standby mode and will keep a warm cache of the file system metadata for faster failover. The instances will be assigned by CephFS in failover pairs. If false, the extra MDS instances will all be on passive standby mode and will not maintain a warm cache of the metadata.
  • annotations: Key value pair list of annotations to add.
  • placement: The mds pods can be given standard Kubernetes placement restrictions with nodeAffinity, tolerations, podAffinity, and podAntiAffinity similar to placement defined for daemons configured by the cluster CRD.
  • resources: Set resource requests/limits for the Filesystem MDS Pod(s), see Resource Requirements/Limits.