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| <h1 id="usage-patterns">Usage Patterns</h1> | |
| <h2 id="tiered-cache">tiered cache</h2> | |
| <p>Some storage technologies support what is called "tiered" caching. The | |
| placing of smaller, faster storage as a transparent cache to larger, | |
| slower storage. NVMe, SSD, or Optane in front of traditional HDDs for | |
| instance.</p> | |
| <p>mergerfs does not natively support any sort of tiered caching | |
| currently. The truth is for many users a cache would have little or no | |
| advantage over reading and writing directly. They would be | |
| bottlenecked by their network, internet connection, or limited size of | |
| the cache. However, there are a few situations where a tiered cache | |
| setup could help.</p> | |
| <ol> | |
| <li>Fast network, slow filesystems, many readers: You've a 10+Gbps | |
|     network with many readers and your regular filesystems can't keep | |
|     up.</li> | |
| <li>Fast network, slow filesystems, small'ish bursty writes: You have | |
|     a 10+Gbps network and wish to transfer amounts of data less than | |
|     your cache filesystem but wish to do so quickly and the time | |
|     between bursts is long enough to migrate data.</li> | |
| </ol> | |
| <p>With #1 it's arguable if you should be using mergerfs at all. A RAID | |
| level that can aggregate performance or using higher performance | |
| storage would probably be the better solution. If you're going to use | |
| mergerfs there are other tactics that may help: spreading the data | |
| across filesystems (see the mergerfs.dup tool) and setting | |
| <code>func.open=rand</code>, using <code>symlinkify</code>, or using dm-cache or a similar | |
| technology to add tiered cache to the underlying device itself.</p> | |
| <p>With #2 one could use a block cache solution as available via LVM and | |
| dm-cache but there is another solution which requires only mergerfs, a | |
| script to move files around, and a cron job to run said script.</p> | |
| <ul> | |
| <li>Create two mergerfs pools. One which includes just the <strong>slow</strong> | |
|   branches and one which has <strong>both</strong> the <strong>fast</strong> branches | |
|   (SSD,NVME,etc.) and <strong>slow</strong> branches. The <strong>base</strong> pool and the | |
|   <strong>cache</strong> pool.</li> | |
| <li>The <strong>cache</strong> pool should have the cache branches listed first in | |
|   the branch list in order to to make it easier to prioritize them.</li> | |
| <li>The best <code>create</code> policies to use for the <strong>cache</strong> pool would | |
|   probably be <code>ff</code>, <code>lus</code>, or <code>lfs</code>. The latter two under the | |
|   assumption that the cache filesystem(s) are far smaller than the | |
|   backing filesystems.</li> | |
| <li>You can also set the <strong>slow</strong> branches' mode to <code>NC</code> which would | |
|   give you the ability to use other <code>create</code> policies though that'd | |
|   mean if the cache filesystems fill you'd get "out of space" | |
|   errors. This however may be good as it would indicate the script | |
|   moving files around is not configured properly.</li> | |
| <li>Set your programs to use the <strong>cache</strong> pool.</li> | |
| <li>Configure the <strong>base</strong> pool with the <code>create</code> policy you would like | |
|   to lay out files as you like.</li> | |
| <li>Save one of the below scripts or create your own. The script's | |
|   responsibility is to move files from the <strong>cache</strong> branches (not | |
|   pool) to the <strong>base</strong> pool.</li> | |
| <li>Use <code>cron</code> (as root) to schedule the command at whatever frequency | |
|   is appropriate for your workflow.</li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <h3 id="time-based-expiring">time based expiring</h3> | |
| <p>Move files from cache filesystem to base pool which have an access | |
| time older than the supplied number of days. Replace <code>-atime</code> with | |
| <code>-amin</code> in the script if you want minutes rather than days.</p> | |
| <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> The arguments to these scripts include the cache | |
| <strong>filesystem</strong> itself. Not the pool with the cache filesystem. You | |
| could have data loss if the source is the cache pool.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs/blob/latest-release/tools/mergerfs.time-based-mover?raw=1">mergerfs.time-based-mover</a></p> | |
| <p>Download: | |
| <div class="language-text highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span id="__span-0-1"><a id="__codelineno-0-1" name="__codelineno-0-1" href="#__codelineno-0-1"></a>curl -o /usr/local/bin/mergerfs.time-based-mover https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trapexit/mergerfs/refs/heads/latest-release/tools/mergerfs.time-based-mover | |
| </span></code></pre></div></p> | |
| <p>crontab entry: | |
| <div class="language-text highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span id="__span-1-1"><a id="__codelineno-1-1" name="__codelineno-1-1" href="#__codelineno-1-1"></a># m h  dom mon dow   command | |
| </span><span id="__span-1-2"><a id="__codelineno-1-2" name="__codelineno-1-2" href="#__codelineno-1-2"></a>0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mergerfs.time-based-mover /mnt/ssd/cache00 /mnt/base-pool 1 | |
| </span></code></pre></div></p> | |
| <p>If you have more than one cache filesystem then simply add a cron | |
| entry for each.</p> | |
| <p>If you want to only move files from a subdirectory then use the | |
| subdirectories. <code>/mnt/ssd/cache00/foo</code> and <code>/mnt/base-pool/foo</code> | |
| respectively.</p> | |
| <h3 id="percentage-full-expiring">percentage full expiring</h3> | |
| <p>While the cache filesystem's percentage full is above the provided | |
| value move the oldest file from the cache filesystem to the base pool.</p> | |
| <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> The arguments to these scripts include the cache | |
| <strong>filesystem</strong> itself. Not the pool with the cache filesystem. You | |
| could have data loss if the source is the cache pool.</p> | |
| <p><a href="https://github.com/trapexit/mergerfs/blob/latest-release/tools/mergerfs.percent-full-mover?raw=1">mergerfs.percent-full-mover</a></p> | |
| <p>Download: | |
| <div class="language-text highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span id="__span-2-1"><a id="__codelineno-2-1" name="__codelineno-2-1" href="#__codelineno-2-1"></a>curl -o /usr/local/bin/mergerfs.percent-full-mover https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trapexit/mergerfs/refs/heads/latest-release/tools/mergerfs.percent-full-mover | |
| </span></code></pre></div></p> | |
| <p>crontab entry: | |
| <div class="language-text highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span id="__span-3-1"><a id="__codelineno-3-1" name="__codelineno-3-1" href="#__codelineno-3-1"></a># m h  dom mon dow   command | |
| </span><span id="__span-3-2"><a id="__codelineno-3-2" name="__codelineno-3-2" href="#__codelineno-3-2"></a>0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/mergerfs.percent-full-mover /mnt/ssd/cache00 /mnt/base-pool 80 | |
| </span></code></pre></div></p> | |
| <p>If you have more than one cache filesystem then simply add a cron | |
| entry for each.</p> | |
| <p>If you want to only move files from a subdirectory then use the | |
| subdirectories. <code>/mnt/ssd/cache00/foo</code> and <code>/mnt/base-pool/foo</code> | |
| respectively.</p> | |
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