From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id nA2HqgKv078986 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:52:42 -0600 Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 26971180B3D5 for ; Mon, 2 Nov 2009 09:52:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2-g21.free.fr (smtp2-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.2]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id GvamCvdpdq1ECvU7 for ; Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:52:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:52:49 +0100 From: Emmanuel Florac Subject: Re: XFS and DPX files Message-ID: <20091102185249.0da8e388@harpe.intellique.com> In-Reply-To: <200911021205.28006@zmi.at> References: <4AEC2CF4.8040703@aol.com> <4AEC4BAA.20606@aol.com> <20091031174836.3fc9505b@galadriel.home> <200911021205.28006@zmi.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Michael Monnerie Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Le Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:05:27 +0100 Michael Monnerie =E9crivait: > I believe for a 15 drive RAID-6, where 2 disks are used for > redundancy, the correct mkfs would be: > mkfs -t xfs -d su=3D65536,sw=3D13 /dev/sdXX Yes you're right, I replied a bit too quickly :) > Another thing to try is if it would help to turn disk cache writes > *on*, despite all warnings if the FAQ. = The 3Ware is so slow it's almost unusable without write cache. I bet he already uses it anyway. -- = ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emmanuel Florac | Intellique ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs