From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: david@lang.hm
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 128TB filesystem limit?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:35:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BAC3990.30403@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1003251900110.12435@asgard.lang.hm>
david@lang.hm wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Dave Chinner wrote:
...
>> Is there any reason for putting partitions on these block devices?
>> You could just use the block devices without partitions, and that
>> will avoid alignment potential problems....
>
> I would like to raid to auto-assemble and I can't do that without
> partitions, can I
I think you can.... it's not like MD is putting anything in the partition
table; you just give it block devices, I doubt it cares if it's a whole
disk or some partition.
Worth a check anyway ;)
...
> the next fun thing is figuring out what sort of stride, etc parameters I
> should have used for this filesystem.
mkfs.xfs should suss that out for you automatically based on talking to md;
of course you'd want to configure md to line up well with the hardware
alignment.
-Eric
> David Lang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-26 4:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-25 23:15 128TB filesystem limit? david
2010-03-25 23:54 ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-26 0:03 ` david
2010-03-26 0:35 ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-26 2:02 ` david
2010-03-26 4:35 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2010-03-26 4:56 ` david
2010-03-26 6:09 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-03-26 7:26 ` Steve Costaras
2010-03-27 9:06 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-03-27 14:28 ` Steve Costaras
2010-03-27 18:45 ` david
2010-03-28 21:17 ` Peter Grandi
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