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

Eric Sandeen
2010-12-23T21:10:58Z

On 12/23/10 12:06 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote:
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> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010, Justin Piszcz wrote:
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> Hi,
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> How come parted using (optimal at 1mb alignment is slower than no
> partition?

because parted got it wrong, sounds like.

> In addition, sunit and swidth set properly as mentioned
> earlier appears to be _slower_ than defaults with no partitions.

stripe unit over an incorrectly aligned partition won't help
and I suppose could make it worse.

align your partitions, using sector units, to a stripe width unit.
Set the stripe width properly on the fs on top of that.

-Eric

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> http://home.comcast.net/~jpiszcz/20101223/final.html
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> Justin.