Disable pool caching
Prerequisites
Before you can disable pool caching, you must have a storage pool with caching configured and enabled.
You can use the following commands to check if caching is enabled:
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First, run the
pxctl status
command the get the id of your pool:pxctl status
Status: PX is operational
License: Trial (expires in 29 days)
Node ID: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-f929bc658862
IP: X.X.X.28
Local Storage Pool: 1 pool
POOL IO_PRIORITY RAID_LEVEL USABLE USED STATUS ZONE REGION
0 HIGH raid0 128 GiB 8.4 GiB Online default default
Local Storage Devices: 2 devices
Device Path Media Type Size Last-Scan
0:0 /dev/sdf STORAGE_MEDIUM_MAGNETIC 128 GiB 20 Sep 19 19:44 UTC
total - 128 GiB
Cache Devices:
Device Path Media Type Size Last-Scan
0:1 /dev/sdc STORAGE_MEDIUM_SSD 70 GiB 20 Sep 19 19:44 UTC
Cluster Summary
Cluster ID: doc-cluster-caching-2.2.0
Cluster UUID: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-70019d925a4a
Scheduler: none
Nodes: 3 node(s) with storage (3 online)
IP ID SchedulerNodeName StorageNode UseCapacity Status StorageStatus Version Kernel OS
X.X.X.28 xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-f929bc658862 N/A Yes 8.4 GiB 128 GiB Online Up (This node) 2.2.0.0-328a043 4.20.13-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
X.X.X.240 xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-2ae648891072 N/A Yes 8.4 GiB 128 GiB Online Up 2.2.0.0-328a043 4.20.13-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
X.X.X.32 xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-9bf257e9973a N/A Yes 8.4 GiB 128 GiB Online Up 2.2.0.0-328a043 4.20.13-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64 CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
Global Storage Pool
Total Used : 25 GiB
Total Capacity : 384 GiB -
Run the
pxctl service pool cache status
command with the id of your storage pool as a parameter:pxctl service pool cache status 0
Pool ID: 0
Enabled: true
Members: [/dev/sdc]
TotalBlocks: 71660
UsedBlocks: 15
DirtyBlocks: 0
ReadHits: 582
ReadMisses: 168
WriteHits: 1157
WriteMisses: 127
BlockSize: 1048576
Mode: writeback
Policy: smq
Tunables: migration_threshold=20480
Disable pool caching
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Enter pool maintenance mode:
pxctl service pool maintenance --enter
Pool transition operation will restart PX.
Are you sure you want to proceed ? (Y/N): Y
Pool transition request submitted. -
If your cache is running in the default
writeback
mode, you must flush your cache before disabling it:pxctl service pool cache flush <pool_id>
The following example flushes the cache on a pool with an ID of
0
:pxctl service pool cache flush 0
Pool 0 has completed flush successfully
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Enter the
pxctl service pool cache disable
command, specifying the<pool_id>
of the pool you want to disable caching for:pxctl service pool cache disable <pool_id>
The following example disables caching for a pool with an ID of
0
:pxctl service pool cache disable 0
Pool 0 detached cache successfully
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Exit pool maintenance mode:
pxctl service pool maintenance --exit
Pool transition operation will restart PX.
Are you sure you want to proceed ? (Y/N): Y
Pool transition request submitted. -
At this point, you can run the
pxctl service pool cache status
command to see if caching is disabled:pxctl service pool cache status 0
PX Cache Configuration and Status:
Pool ID: 0
Enabled: false
Members: [/dev/sdc]
TotalBlocks: 0
UsedBlocks: 0
DirtyBlocks: 0
ReadHits: 0
ReadMisses: 0
WriteHits: 0
WriteMisses: 0
BlockSize: 1048576
Mode: writeback
Policy: smq
Tunables: migration_threshold=20480