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authorAndre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>2011-12-09 18:57:45 +0100
committerTommi Virtanen <tommi.virtanen@dreamhost.com>2011-12-12 14:31:10 -0800
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doc: Clarify documentation of reweight command.
This caused some discussions on the mailing list, so let's try to be clear about the meaning of an OSD weight. Signed-Off-By: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
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@@ -152,7 +152,9 @@ resending pending requests. ::
$ ceph osd reweight N W
-Sets the weight of osdN to W. ::
+Set the weight of osdN to W. Two OSDs with the same weight will receive
+roughly the same number of I/O requests and store approximately the
+same amount of data. ::
$ ceph osd reweight-by-utilization [threshold]