Chapter 5. Ceph File System administration As a storage administrator, you can perform common Ceph File System (CephFS) administrative tasks, such as: Monitoring CephFS metrics in real-time, see Section 5.1, "Using the cephfs-top utility" Mapping a directory to a particular MDS rank, see Section 5.5, "Mapping directory trees to Metadata Server daemon ranks" . Disassociating a directory from a MDS rank, see Section 5.6, "Disassociating directory trees from Metadata Server daemon ranks" . Adding a new data pool, see Section 5.7, "Adding data pools" . Working with quotas, see Chapter 6, Ceph File System quotas . Working with files and directory layouts, see Chapter 7, File and directory layouts . Removing a Ceph File System, see Section 5.9, "Removing a Ceph File System" . Client features, see Section 5.11, "Client features" . Using the ceph mds fail command, see Section 5.10, "Using the ceph mds fail command" . Manually evict a CephFS client, see Section 5.14, "Manually evicting a Ceph File System client" Prerequisites A running, and healthy Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster. Installation and configuration of the Ceph Metadata Server daemons ( ceph-mds ). Create and mount a Ceph File System. 5.1. Using the cephfs-top utility The Ceph File System (CephFS) provides a top -like utility to display metrics on Ceph File Systems in realtime. The cephfs-top utility is a curses -based Python script that uses the Ceph Manager stats module to fetch and display client performance metrics. Currently, the cephfs-top utility supports nearly 10k clients. Note Currently, not all of the performance stats are available in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 kernel. cephfs-top is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and above and uses one of the standard terminals in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Important The minimum compatible python version for cephfs-top utility is 3.6.0. Prerequisites A healthy and running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster. Deployment of a Ceph File System. Root-level access to a Ceph client node. Installation of the cephfs-top package. Procedure Enable the Red Hat Ceph Storage 7 tools repository, if it is not already enabled: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Install the cephfs-top package: Example Enable the Ceph Manager stats plugin: Example Create the client.fstop Ceph user: Example Note Optionally, use the --id argument to specify a different Ceph user, other than client.fstop . Start the cephfs-top utility: Example 5.1.1. The cephfs-top utility interactive commands Select a particular file system and view the metrics related to that file system with the cephfs-top utility interactive commands. m Description Filesystem selection: Displays a menu of file systems for selection. q Description Quit: Exits the utility if you are at the home screen with all file system information. If you are not at the home screen, it redirects you back to the home screen. s Description Sort field selection: Designates the sort field. 'cap_hit' is the default. l Description Client limit: Sets the limit on the number of clients to be displayed. r Description Reset: Resets the sort field and limit value to the default. The metrics display can be scrolled using the Arrow Keys, PgUp/PgDn, Home/End and mouse. Example of entering and exiting the file system selection menu 5.1.2. The cephfs-top utility options You can use the cephfs-top utility command with various options. Example --cluster NAME_OF_THE_CLUSTER Description With this option, you can connect to the non-default cluster name. The default name is ceph . --id USER Description This is a client which connects to the Ceph cluster and is fstop by default. --selftest Description With this option, you can perform a selftest. This mode performs a sanity check of stats module. --conffile PATH_TO_THE_CONFIGURATION_FILE Description With this option, you can provide a path to the Ceph cluster configuration file. -d/--delay INTERVAL_IN_SECONDS Description The cephfs-top utility refreshes statistics every second by default. With this option, you can change a refresh interval. Note Interval should be greater than or equal to 1 seconds. Fractional seconds are honored. --dump Description With this option, you can dump the metrics to stdout without creating a curses display use. --dumpfs FILE_SYSTEM_NAME Description With this option, you can dump the metrics of the given filesystem to stdout without creating a curses display use. 5.2. Using the MDS autoscaler module The MDS Autoscaler Module monitors the Ceph File System (CephFS) to ensure sufficient MDS daemons are available. It works by adjusting the placement specification for the Orchestrator backend of the MDS service. The module monitors the following file system settings to inform placement count adjustments: max_mds file system setting standby_count_wanted file system setting The Ceph monitor daemons are still responsible for promoting or stopping MDS according to these settings. The mds_autoscaler simply adjusts the number of MDS which are spawned by the orchestrator. Prerequisites A healthy and running Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster. Deployment of a Ceph File System. Root-level access to a Ceph Monitor node. Procedure Enable the MDS autoscaler module: Example 5.3. Unmounting Ceph File Systems mounted as kernel clients How to unmount a Ceph File System that is mounted as a kernel client. Prerequisites Root-level access to the node doing the mounting. Procedure To unmount a Ceph File System mounted as a kernel client: Syntax Example Additional Resources The umount(8) manual page 5.4. Unmounting Ceph File Systems mounted as FUSE clients Unmounting a Ceph File System that is mounted as a File System in User Space (FUSE) client. Prerequisites Root-level access to the FUSE client node. Procedure To unmount a Ceph File System mounted in FUSE: Syntax Example Additional Resources The ceph-fuse(8) manual page 5.5. Mapping directory trees to Metadata Server daemon ranks You can map a directory and its subdirectories to a particular active Metadata Server (MDS) rank so that its metadata is only managed by the MDS daemon holding that rank. This approach enables you to evenly spread application load or the limit impact of users' metadata requests to the entire storage cluster. Important An internal balancer already dynamically spreads the application load. Therefore, only map directory trees to ranks for certain carefully chosen applications. In addition, when a directory is mapped to a rank, the balancer cannot split it. Consequently, a large number of operations within the mapped directory can overload the rank and the MDS daemon that manages it. Prerequisites At least two active MDS daemons. User access to the CephFS client node. Verify that the attr package is installed on the CephFS client node with a mounted Ceph File System. Procedure Add the p flag to the Ceph user's capabilities: Syntax Example Set the ceph.dir.pin extended attribute on a directory: Syntax Example This example assigns the /temp directory and all of its subdirectories to rank 2. Additional Resources See the Layout, quota, snapshot, and network restrictions section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage File System Guide for more details about the p flag. See the Manually pinning directory trees to a particular rank section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage File System Guide for more details. See the Configuring multiple active Metadata Server daemons section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage File System Guide for more details. 5.6. Disassociating directory trees from Metadata Server daemon ranks Disassociate a directory from a particular active Metadata Server (MDS) rank. Prerequisites User access to the Ceph File System (CephFS) client node. Ensure that the attr package is installed on the client node with a mounted CephFS. Procedure Set the ceph.dir.pin extended attribute to -1 on a directory: Syntax Example Note Any separately mapped subdirectories of /home/ceph-user/ are not affected. Additional Resources See the Mapping directory trees to Metadata Server daemon ranks section in Red Hat Ceph Storage File System Guide for more details. 5.7. Adding data pools The Ceph File System (CephFS) supports adding more than one pool to be used for storing data. This can be useful for: Storing log data on reduced redundancy pools. Storing user home directories on an SSD or NVMe pool. Basic data segregation. Before using another data pool in the Ceph File System, you must add it as described in this section. By default, for storing file data, CephFS uses the initial data pool that was specified during its creation. To use a secondary data pool, you must also configure a part of the file system hierarchy to store file data in that pool or optionally within a namespace of that pool, using file and directory layouts. Prerequisites Root-level access to the Ceph Monitor node. Procedure Create a new data pool: Syntax Replace: POOL_NAME with the name of the pool. Example Add the newly created pool under the control of the Metadata Servers: Syntax Replace: FS_NAME with the name of the file system. POOL_NAME with the name of the pool. Example: Verify that the pool was successfully added: Example Optional: Remove a data pool from the file system: Syntax Example: Verify that the pool was successfully removed: Example If you use the cephx authentication, make sure that clients can access the new pool. Additional Resources See the File and directory layouts section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage File System Guide for details. See the Creating client users for a Ceph File System section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage File System Guide for details. 5.8. Taking down a Ceph File System cluster You can take down Ceph File System (CephFS) cluster by setting the down flag to true . Doing this gracefully shuts down the Metadata Server (MDS) daemons by flushing journals to the metadata pool and stopping all client I/O. You can also take the CephFS cluster down quickly to test the deletion of a file system and bring the Metadata Server (MDS) daemons down, for example, when practicing a disaster recovery scenario. Doing this sets the jointable flag to prevent the MDS standby daemons from activating the file system. Prerequisites Root-level access to a Ceph Monitor node. Procedure To mark the CephFS cluster down: Syntax Example To bring the CephFS cluster back up: Syntax Example or To quickly take down a CephFS cluster: Syntax Example Note To get the CephFS cluster back up, set cephfs to joinable : Syntax Example 5.9. Removing a Ceph File System You can remove a Ceph File System (CephFS). Before doing so, consider backing up all the data and verifying that all clients have unmounted the file system locally. Warning This operation is destructive and will make the data stored on the Ceph File System permanently inaccessible. Prerequisites Back up your data. Root-level access to a Ceph Monitor node. Procedure Mark the storage cluster as down: Syntax Replace FS_NAME with the name of the Ceph File System you want to remove. Example Display the status of the Ceph File System: Example Remove the Ceph File System: Syntax Replace FS_NAME with the name of the Ceph File System you want to remove. Example Verify that the file system has been successfully removed: Example Optional. Remove data and metadata pools associated with the removed file system. Additional Resources See the Delete a Pool section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage Storage Strategies Guide . 5.10. Using the ceph mds fail command Use the ceph mds fail command to: Mark a MDS daemon as failed. If the daemon was active and a suitable standby daemon was available, and if the standby daemon was active after disabling the standby-replay configuration, using this command forces a failover to the standby daemon. By disabling the standby-replay daemon, this prevents new standby-replay daemons from being assigned. Restart a running MDS daemon. If the daemon was active and a suitable standby daemon was available, the "failed" daemon becomes a standby daemon. Prerequisites Installation and configuration of the Ceph MDS daemons. Procedure To fail a daemon: Syntax Where MDS_NAME is the name of the standby-replay MDS node. Example Note You can find the Ceph MDS name from the ceph fs status command. Additional Resources See the Decreasing the number of active Metadata Server daemons section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage File System Guide . See the Configuring the number of standby daemons section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage File System Guide . See the Metadata Server ranks section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage File System Guide . 5.11. Client features At times you might want to set Ceph File System (CephFS) features that clients must support to enable them to use Ceph File Systems. Clients without these features might disrupt other CephFS clients, or behave in unexpected ways. Also, you might want to require new features to prevent older, and possibly buggy clients from connecting to a Ceph File System. Important CephFS clients missing newly added features are evicted automatically. You can list all the CephFS features by using the fs features ls command. You can add or remove requirements by using the fs required_client_features command. Syntax Feature Descriptions reply_encoding Description The Ceph Metadata Server (MDS) encodes reply requests in extensible format, if the client supports this feature. reclaim_client Description The Ceph MDS allows a new client to reclaim another, perhaps a dead, client's state. This feature is used by NFS Ganesha. lazy_caps_wanted Description When a stale client resumes, the Ceph MDS only needs to re-issue the capabilities that are explicitly wanted, if the client supports this feature. multi_reconnect Description After a Ceph MDS failover event, the client sends a reconnect message to the MDS to reestablish cache states. A client can split large reconnect messages into multiple messages. deleg_ino Description A Ceph MDS delegates inode numbers to a client, if the client supports this feature. Delegating inode numbers is a prerequisite for a client to do async file creation. metric_collect Description CephFS clients can send performance metrics to a Ceph MDS. alternate_name Description CephFS clients can set and understand alternate names for directory entries. This feature allows for encrypted file names. 5.12. Ceph File System client evictions When a Ceph File System (CephFS) client is unresponsive or misbehaving, it might be necessary to forcibly terminate, or evict it from accessing the CephFS. Evicting a CephFS client prevents it from communicating further with Metadata Server (MDS) daemons and Ceph OSD daemons. If a CephFS client is buffering I/O to the CephFS at the time of eviction, then any un-flushed data will be lost. The CephFS client eviction process applies to all client types: FUSE mounts, kernel mounts, NFS gateways, and any process using libcephfs API library. You can evict CephFS clients automatically, if they fail to communicate promptly with the MDS daemon, or manually. Automatic Client Eviction These scenarios cause an automatic CephFS client eviction: If a CephFS client has not communicated with the active MDS daemon for over the default of 300 seconds, or as set by the session_autoclose option. If the mds_cap_revoke_eviction_timeout option is set, and a CephFS client has not responded to the cap revoke messages for over the set amount of seconds. The mds_cap_revoke_eviction_timeout option is disabled by default. During MDS startup or failover, the MDS daemon goes through a reconnect phase waiting for all the CephFS clients to connect to the new MDS daemon. If any CephFS clients fail to reconnect within the default time window of 45 seconds, or as set by the mds_reconnect_timeout option. Additional Resources See the Manually evicting a Ceph File System client section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage File System Guide for more details. 5.13. Blocklist Ceph File System clients Ceph File System (CephFS) client blocklisting is enabled by default. When you send an eviction command to a single Metadata Server (MDS) daemon, it propagates the blocklist to the other MDS daemons. This is to prevent the CephFS client from accessing any data objects, so it is necessary to update the other CephFS clients, and MDS daemons with the latest Ceph OSD map, which includes the blocklisted client entries. An internal "osdmap epoch barrier" mechanism is used when updating the Ceph OSD map. The purpose of the barrier is to verify the CephFS clients receiving the capabilities have a sufficiently recent Ceph OSD map, before any capabilities are assigned that might allow access to the same RADOS objects, as to not race with canceled operations, such as, from ENOSPC or blocklisted clients from evictions. If you are experiencing frequent CephFS client evictions due to slow nodes or an unreliable network, and you cannot fix the underlying issue, then you can ask the MDS to be less strict. It is possible to respond to slow CephFS clients by simply dropping their MDS sessions, but permit the CephFS client to re-open sessions and to continue talking to Ceph OSDs. By setting the mds_session_blocklist_on_timeout and mds_session_blocklist_on_evict options to false enables this mode. Note When blocklisting is disabled, the evicted CephFS client has only an effect on the MDS daemon you send the command to. On a system with multiple active MDS daemons, you need to send an eviction command to each active daemon. 5.14. Manually evicting a Ceph File System client You might want to manually evict a Ceph File System (CephFS) client, if the client is misbehaving and you do not have access to the client node, or if a client dies, and you do not want to wait for the client session to time out. Prerequisites Root-level access to the Ceph Monitor node. Procedure Review the client list: Syntax Example Evict the specified CephFS client: Syntax Example 5.15. Removing a Ceph File System client from the blocklist In some situations, it can be useful to allow a previously blocklisted Ceph File System (CephFS) client to reconnect to the storage cluster. Important Removing a CephFS client from the blocklist puts data integrity at risk, and does not guarantee a fully healthy, and functional CephFS client as a result. The best way to get a fully healthy CephFS client back after an eviction, is to unmount the CephFS client and do a fresh mount. If other CephFS clients are accessing files that the blocklisted CephFS client was buffering I/O to, it can result in data corruption. Prerequisites Root-level access to the Ceph Monitor node. Procedure Review the blocklist: Example Remove the CephFS client from the blocklist: Syntax Example Optionally, you can have kernel-based CephFS clients automatically reconnect when removing them from the blocklist. On the kernel-based CephFS client, set the following option to clean either when doing a manual mount, or automatically mounting with an entry in the /etc/fstab file: Optionally, you can have FUSE-based CephFS clients automatically reconnect when removing them from the blocklist. On the FUSE client, set the following option to true either when doing a manual mount, or automatically mounting with an entry in the /etc/fstab file: Additional Resources See the Mounting the Ceph File System as a FUSE client section in the Red Hat Ceph Storage File System Guide for more information.

Commands:
subscription-manager repos --enable=rhceph-7-tools-for-rhel-9-x86_64-rpms
dnf install cephfs-top
ceph mgr module enable stats
ceph auth get-or-create client.fstop mon 'allow r' mds 'allow r' osd 'allow r' mgr 'allow r' > /etc/ceph/ceph.client.fstop.keyring
cephfs-top cephfs-top - Wed Nov 30 15:26:05 2022 All Filesystem Info Total Client(s): 4 - 3 FUSE, 1 kclient, 0 libcephfs COMMANDS: m - select a filesystem | s - sort menu | l - limit number of clients | r - reset to default | q - quit client_id mount_root chit(%) dlease(%) ofiles oicaps oinodes rtio(MB) raio(MB) rsp(MB/s) wtio(MB) waio(MB) wsp(MB/s) rlatavg(ms) rlatsd(ms) wlatavg(ms) wlatsd(ms) mlatavg(ms) mlatsd(ms) mount_point@host/addr Filesystem: cephfs1 - 2 client(s) 4500 / 100.0 100.0 0 751 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 578.13 0.03 0.0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A@example/192.168.1.4 4501 / 100.0 0.0 0 1 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.41 0.0 /mnt/cephfs2@example/192.168.1.4 Filesystem: cephfs2 - 2 client(s) 4512 / 100.0 0.0 0 1 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.0 /mnt/cephfs3@example/192.168.1.4 4518 / 100.0 0.0 0 1 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.52 0.0 /mnt/cephfs4@example/192.168.1.4
m Filesystems Press "q" to go back to home (all filesystem info) screen cephfs01 cephfs02 q cephfs-top - Thu Oct 20 07:29:35 2022 Total Client(s): 3 - 2 FUSE, 1 kclient, 0 libcephfs
cephfs-top --selftest selftest ok
ceph mgr module enable mds_autoscaler
umount MOUNT_POINT
umount /mnt/cephfs
fusermount -u MOUNT_POINT
fusermount -u /mnt/cephfs
ceph fs authorize FILE_SYSTEM_NAME client. CLIENT_NAME / DIRECTORY CAPABILITY [/ DIRECTORY CAPABILITY ]
[user@client ~]USD ceph fs authorize cephfs_a client.1 /temp rwp client.1 key: AQBSdFhcGZFUDRAAcKhG9Cl2HPiDMMRv4DC43A== caps: [mds] allow r, allow rwp path=/temp caps: [mon] allow r caps: [osd] allow rw tag cephfs data=cephfs_a
setfattr -n ceph.dir.pin -v RANK DIRECTORY
[user@client ~]USD setfattr -n ceph.dir.pin -v 2 /temp
setfattr -n ceph.dir.pin -v -1 DIRECTORY
[user@client ~]USD setfattr -n ceph.dir.pin -v -1 /home/ceph-user
ceph osd pool create POOL_NAME
ceph osd pool create cephfs_data_ssd pool 'cephfs_data_ssd' created
ceph fs add_data_pool FS_NAME POOL_NAME
ceph fs add_data_pool cephfs cephfs_data_ssd added data pool 6 to fsmap
ceph fs ls name: cephfs, metadata pool: cephfs_metadata, data pools: [cephfs_data cephfs_data_ssd]
ceph fs rm_data_pool FS_NAME POOL_NAME
ceph fs rm_data_pool cephfs cephfs_data_ssd removed data pool 6 from fsmap
ceph fs ls name: cephfs, metadata pool: cephfs_metadata, data pools: [cephfs.cephfs.data]
ceph fs set FS_NAME down true
ceph fs set cephfs down true
ceph fs set FS_NAME down false
ceph fs set cephfs down false
ceph fs fail FS_NAME
ceph fs fail cephfs
ceph fs set FS_NAME joinable true
ceph fs set cephfs joinable true cephfs marked joinable; MDS may join as newly active.
ceph fs set FS_NAME down true
ceph fs set cephfs down true cephfs marked down.
ceph fs status
ceph fs status cephfs - 0 clients ====== +-------------------+----------+-------+-------+ | POOL | TYPE | USED | AVAIL | +-----------------+------------+-------+-------+ |cephfs.cephfs.meta | metadata | 31.5M | 52.6G| |cephfs.cephfs.data | data | 0 | 52.6G| +-----------------+----------+-------+---------+ STANDBY MDS cephfs.ceph-host01 cephfs.ceph-host02 cephfs.ceph-host03
ceph fs rm FS_NAME --yes-i-really-mean-it
ceph fs rm cephfs --yes-i-really-mean-it
ceph fs ls
ceph mds fail MDS_NAME
ceph mds fail example01
fs required_client_features FILE_SYSTEM_NAME add FEATURE_NAME fs required_client_features FILE_SYSTEM_NAME rm FEATURE_NAME
ceph tell DAEMON_NAME client ls
ceph tell mds.0 client ls [ { "id": 4305, "num_leases": 0, "num_caps": 3, "state": "open", "replay_requests": 0, "completed_requests": 0, "reconnecting": false, "inst": "client.4305 172.21.9.34:0/422650892", "client_metadata": { "ceph_sha1": "79f0367338897c8c6d9805eb8c9ad24af0dcd9c7", "ceph_version": "ceph version 16.2.8-65.el8cp (79f0367338897c8c6d9805eb8c9ad24af0dcd9c7)", "entity_id": "0", "hostname": "senta04", "mount_point": "/tmp/tmpcMpF1b/mnt.0", "pid": "29377", "root": "/" } } ]
ceph tell DAEMON_NAME client evict id= ID_NUMBER
ceph tell mds.0 client evict id=4305
ceph osd blocklist ls listed 1 entries 127.0.0.1:0/3710147553 2022-05-09 11:32:24.716146
ceph osd blocklist rm CLIENT_NAME_OR_IP_ADDR
ceph osd blocklist rm 127.0.0.1:0/3710147553 un-blocklisting 127.0.0.1:0/3710147553
recover_session=clean
client_reconnect_stale=true