From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Abel Coto <whitewolf573@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs tuning for a 830 GB partition (mkfs.xfs options)
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:34:14 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101209013413.GA7105@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101209010531.GE32766@dastard>
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 12:05:31PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:32:28PM +0100, Abel Coto wrote:
> > I want to create a 830 GB partition, to mount as /home in my Centos 5.4
> > workstation.
> >
> > Actually i have /home not mounted ,so i would have to create the new
> > partition in the lvm,format it and use rsync to copy /home directory to it.
> >
> > for a 830 GB partition that i will use to save my data in general and also
> > 3d / CG projects and renders once finished them what agcount value should be
> > used. I have read that mkfs default option creates 1 allocation group each
> > 4G , so i understand that for a 830 GB partition agcount should be 208.
> >
> > It is this correct ?
>
> No, you've read something that is at least 5 years out of date. Just
> use the defaults - they are already optimised for best performance
> in most circumstances.
Seeing as I say this so often:
http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_I_want_to_tune_my_XFS_filesystems_for_.3Csomething.3E
Cheers,
Dave.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-08 19:32 xfs tuning for a 830 GB partition (mkfs.xfs options) Abel Coto
2010-12-08 22:14 ` Stan Hoeppner
[not found] ` <AANLkTi=qkM9c5ukdJj7Hqhj8XMWSOGNENLEG9_Uz_DBT@mail.gmail.com>
2010-12-09 0:27 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-12-09 1:05 ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-09 1:34 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
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