Re: Anyone using XFS in production on > 20TiB volumes?

Justin Piszcz
2010-12-23T00:26:32Z

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On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, Emmanuel Florac wrote:

> Le Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:03:13 -0600 vous écriviez:
>
>> http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_I_want_to_tune_my_XFS_filesystems_for_.3Csomething.3E
>>
>> which mentions getting your geometry right if it's hardware raid
>> that can't be detected automatically.
>
> Just as a side note : I tried several times to manually set the
> filesystem layout to precisely match the underlying hardware RAID
> with sunit and swidth but didn't find that it made a noticeable
> difference. On my 39.9 TB systems, the default agcount is 39, while the
> optimum would be (theorically at least) 42.
>
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Hi, I concur, for hardware raid (at least on 3ware cards) I have found it
makes no difference, thanks for confirming.

Which RAID cards did you use?

Justin.

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