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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Joe Landman <joe.landman@gmail.com>
Cc: Mdadm <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: high throughput storage server?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:07:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110324170753.GA29482@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D8A1D9B.7020100@gmail.com>

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:19:39PM -0400, Joe Landman wrote:
> The issue though is that xfs stores journals internally by default.
> You can change this, and in specific use cases, an external journal
> is strongly advised.  This would be one such use case.

In general if you have enough spindles, or an SSD for the log for
an otherwise disk based setup the external log will always be
a win.  For many workloads log will be the only backwards seeks.

This is slightly offtopic here through, because as Joe already
sais corretly it won't matter too much for a read heavy workload.

> Unfortunately, xfs snapshots have to be done via LVM2 right now.  My
> memory isn't clear on this, there may be an xfs_freeze requirement
> for the snapshot to be really valid.  e.g.

That's not needed anymore for a long time now - device mapper
now calls the freeze_fs method to invoke exactly the same code
to freeze the filesystem.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-24 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-14 23:59 high throughput storage server? Matt Garman
2011-02-15  2:06 ` Doug Dumitru
2011-02-15  4:44   ` Matt Garman
2011-02-15  5:49     ` hansbkk
2011-02-15  9:43     ` David Brown
2011-02-24 20:28       ` Matt Garman
2011-02-24 20:43         ` David Brown
2011-02-15 15:16     ` Joe Landman
2011-02-15 20:37       ` NeilBrown
2011-02-15 20:47         ` Joe Landman
2011-02-15 21:41           ` NeilBrown
2011-02-24 20:58       ` Matt Garman
2011-02-24 21:20         ` Joe Landman
2011-02-26 23:54           ` high throughput storage server? GPFS w/ 10GB/s throughput to the rescue Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-27  0:56             ` Joe Landman
2011-02-27 14:55               ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-12 22:49                 ` Matt Garman
2011-02-27 21:30     ` high throughput storage server? Ed W
2011-02-28 15:46       ` Joe Landman
2011-02-28 23:14         ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-28 22:22       ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-02  3:44       ` Matt Garman
2011-03-02  4:20         ` Joe Landman
2011-03-02  7:10           ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-02 19:03             ` Drew
2011-03-02 19:20               ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-13 20:10                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-14 12:27                   ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-14 12:47                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-18 13:16                       ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-18 14:05                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-18 15:43                           ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-18 16:21                             ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-18 22:01                             ` NeilBrown
2011-03-18 22:23                               ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-20  1:34                               ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-20  3:41                                 ` NeilBrown
2011-03-20  5:32                                   ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-20 23:22                                     ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-21  0:52                                       ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-21  2:44                                       ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-03-21  3:13                                         ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-21  3:14                                           ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-21 17:07                                             ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-21 14:18                                         ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-21 17:08                                           ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-21 22:13                                           ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-03-22  9:46                                             ` Robin Hill
2011-03-22 10:14                                               ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-03-23  8:53                                                 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-23 15:57                                                   ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-23 16:19                                                     ` Joe Landman
2011-03-24  8:05                                                       ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-24 13:12                                                         ` Joe Landman
2011-03-25  7:06                                                           ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-24 17:07                                                       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-03-24  5:52                                                     ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-24  6:33                                                       ` NeilBrown
2011-03-24  8:07                                                         ` Roberto Spadim
2011-03-24  8:31                                                         ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-22 10:00                                             ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-03-22 11:01                                               ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-15 12:29 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-15 12:45   ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-15 13:03     ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-24 20:43       ` Matt Garman
2011-02-24 20:53         ` Zdenek Kaspar
2011-02-24 21:07           ` Joe Landman
2011-02-15 13:39   ` David Brown
2011-02-16 23:32     ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-17  0:00       ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-17  0:19         ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-17  2:23           ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-17  3:05             ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-17  0:26       ` David Brown
2011-02-17  0:45         ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-17 10:39           ` David Brown
2011-02-24 20:49     ` Matt Garman
2011-02-15 13:48 ` Zdenek Kaspar
2011-02-15 14:29   ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-15 14:51     ` A. Krijgsman
2011-02-15 16:44       ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-15 14:56     ` Zdenek Kaspar
2011-02-24 20:36       ` Matt Garman
2011-02-17 11:07 ` John Robinson
2011-02-17 13:36   ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-17 13:54     ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-17 21:47   ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-17 22:13     ` Joe Landman
2011-02-17 23:49       ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-18  0:06         ` Joe Landman
2011-02-18  3:48           ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-18 13:49 ` Mattias Wadenstein
2011-02-18 23:16   ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-21 10:25     ` Mattias Wadenstein
2011-02-21 21:51       ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-22  8:57         ` David Brown
2011-02-22  9:30           ` Mattias Wadenstein
2011-02-22  9:49             ` David Brown
2011-02-22 13:38           ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-22 14:18             ` David Brown
2011-02-23  5:52               ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-23 13:56                 ` David Brown
2011-02-23 14:25                   ` John Robinson
2011-02-23 15:15                     ` David Brown
2011-02-23 23:14                       ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-24 10:19                         ` David Brown
2011-02-23 21:59                     ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-23 23:43                       ` John Robinson
2011-02-24 15:53                         ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-23 21:11                   ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-24 11:24                     ` David Brown
2011-02-24 23:30                       ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-25  8:20                         ` David Brown
2011-02-19  0:24   ` Joe Landman
2011-02-21 10:04     ` Mattias Wadenstein

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