From: Geoffrey Wehrman <gwehrman@sgi.com>
To: klonatos@ics.forth.gr
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS journaling position
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:10:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101025161052.GC19425@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <31c7e56286d37870011c17ee8e002760.squirrel@webmail.ics.forth.gr>
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 08:26:04AM +0300, klonatos@ics.forth.gr wrote:
| I have recently discovered that the default journalling position of
| XFS is in the "middle" AG, if the log is internal (e.g. for 32 AGs
| the journal will be placed at the AG = 16). Although I am aware that
| there is possible to explicitly specify a journal location using the
| -l agnum=X mkfs option, I am really curious about the resoning behind
| the default choice.
I haven't found any documentation to support this, but I have been told
that the middle was selected for the single disk case to minimize seek
times. The distance the head must travel to or from other locations on
the disk is optimized by placing the log in the middle of the disk.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-25 16:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-25 5:26 XFS journaling position klonatos
2010-10-25 16:10 ` Geoffrey Wehrman [this message]
2010-10-26 22:27 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-10-26 23:28 ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-26 23:59 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-10-27 14:27 ` Robert Brockway
2010-10-27 14:32 ` Robert Brockway
2010-10-28 9:44 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-10-28 23:33 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-10-29 7:58 ` Michael Monnerie
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