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| author | John Dickinson <me@not.mn> | 2012-09-12 11:01:59 -0700 |
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| committer | John Dickinson <me@not.mn> | 2012-09-12 11:12:46 -0700 |
| commit | bb62d1a15e1ec0226776cb3c9196880476fc3aeb (patch) | |
| tree | 4a05d6ece09518611828d27dd8eb04c9515a5cd5 | |
| parent | 341da755744d9be62e1a52200428d4531aa82e36 (diff) | |
| download | swift-bb62d1a15e1ec0226776cb3c9196880476fc3aeb.tar.gz | |
added disable_fallocate info to docs
Change-Id: I1ee554c7d5f27e076036f561112adfff2571eda6
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/source/deployment_guide.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/deployment_guide.rst b/doc/source/deployment_guide.rst index d2162d62a..423dc9a59 100644 --- a/doc/source/deployment_guide.rst +++ b/doc/source/deployment_guide.rst @@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ mount_check true Whether or not check if the devices are bind_ip 0.0.0.0 IP Address for server to bind to bind_port 6000 Port for server to bind to workers 1 Number of workers to fork +disable_fallocate false Disable "fast fail" fallocate checks if the + underlying filesystem does not support it. ================== ========== ============================================= [object-server] @@ -336,6 +338,8 @@ bind_ip 0.0.0.0 IP Address for server to bind to bind_port 6001 Port for server to bind to workers 1 Number of workers to fork user swift User to run as +disable_fallocate false Disable "fast fail" fallocate checks if the + underlying filesystem does not support it. ================== ========== ============================================ [container-server] @@ -434,6 +438,8 @@ db_preallocation off If you don't mind the extra disk space usage in overhead, you can turn this on to preallocate disk space with SQLite databases to decrease fragmentation. +disable_fallocate false Disable "fast fail" fallocate checks if the + underlying filesystem does not support it. ================== ========== ============================================= [account-server] @@ -745,6 +751,11 @@ For a standard swift install, all data drives are mounted directly under be sure to set the `devices` config option in all of the server configs to point to the correct directory. +Swift uses system calls to reserve space for new objects being written into +the system. If your filesystem does not support `fallocate()` or +`posix_fallocate()`, be sure to set the `disable_fallocate = true` config +parameter in account, container, and object server configs. + --------------------- General System Tuning --------------------- |