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From: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS Preallocate using ALLOCSP
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:04:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906170304.02775@zmi.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8770d98c0906161438u339440cdm783340485a3db898@mail.gmail.com>

On Dienstag 16 Juni 2009 Smit Shah wrote:
> In the vmware sparse disk

Ah, virtualization again. Yes, that's no good for performance ;-) 
There's a "defragment disk" button in VMware which simply copies the 
flat file on the filesystem in order to remove fragmentation. I guess 
running xfs_fsr would help more in that case. Did you try with that?

> chunks are allocated of the size of 64k,

It's a pity that there's no option to define how large each chunk should 
be. Using 1-50MB of real disk space for each new chunk could help a lot 
to keep the file less fragmented. It get's really funny when you run 
"defrag" within the VM on a sparse vdisk.

mfg zmi
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-16  0:18 XFS Preallocate using ALLOCSP Smit Shah
2009-06-16  2:00 ` Smit Shah
2009-06-16  3:34 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-06-16  6:44   ` Smit Shah
2009-06-16  7:34     ` Smit Shah
2009-06-16 15:16     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-06-16 16:42       ` Felix Blyakher
2009-06-16 17:28         ` Smit Shah
2009-06-16 17:32           ` Eric Sandeen
2009-06-16 21:38             ` Smit Shah
2009-06-17  1:04               ` Michael Monnerie [this message]
2009-06-16 17:41           ` Felix Blyakher
2009-06-16 21:42             ` Smit Shah
2009-06-16 22:05               ` Eric Sandeen
2009-06-16 22:32                 ` Felix Blyakher
2009-06-16 22:19               ` Smit Shah
2009-06-16 22:26               ` Felix Blyakher

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