Re: Default mount options (that suck less).

David Chinner
2007-10-29T08:55:20Z

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:56:57PM +1100, Niv Sardi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> XFS's default mount options are in most cases sub-optimal, we should try

Mkfs options ;)

> to have more sensible defaults, so far I'm following some quick dave-powered
> recomendations:
>
> - version 2 logs
> - attr2
> - lazy superblock counters
> - less allocation groups for single disk configs
>
> - imaxpct default can be reduced
>
> it is currently 25, what would be reasonable ?

Given that 25% on a 4GB filesystem will allow about 5million inodes,
I think it's probably reasonable to bring it down to 5% by the time we
pass 1TB and 1% by 50TB.....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group