Hi Raja,

Indeed, Ceph reads the block multiple times, one for each call to read
that block. As for experience needed, alsmost any good C++ developer could
do this. The code is enacsulated in a plugin with little xrootd
entanglement. Likely, they would need to know more about Ceph than xrootd.

Andy


On Tue, 18 Aug 2020, Raja Nandakumar wrote:

> Hi @osschar ,
>
> Thanks a lot for the two detailed analyses. A few questions :
>
> 1. In the case of whole reads, does CEPH still have to read a block >>1 times to get the needed data out?
> 2. In any case, If I understand correct, fixing the vector reads on the xrootd-ceph can only help. I am guessing that this will be done by someone with xrootd knowledge, and I would be happy to do my best to test it at the RAL end if possible / needed. A timescale for this would be useful.
> 3. We are also investigating one set of WNs here at RAL which seem to have multiple issues (ncluding these failures). I will let you know if we find anything about it.
>
> Thanks and Cheers,
> Raja.
>
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