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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Norbert Veber <nveber@pyre.virge.net>
Cc: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Small files perform much faster on newly formatted fs?
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:29:07 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110609012907.GR32466@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110608122638.GQ28625@pyre.virge.net>

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 08:26:38AM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 09:11:10AM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> > On Dienstag, 7. Juni 2011 Norbert Veber wrote:
> > > 20 seconds vs 3+ minutes?!  The only difference I can see is
> > > lazy-count=1 and a larger agcount.  Sunit and swidth were also set
> > > automatically by mkfs this time.
> > 
> > Then retry mounting the old fs with sunit= and swidth= parameters. Are 
> > they on the same disks? What are your disks (number, kind)?
> 
> Yes its already mounted this way as I mentioned in my original message:
> /dev/mapper/vg0-shared on /shared type xfs (rw,noatime,sunit=128,swidth=256)

Those mount options are ignored if the filesystem doesn't have the
superblock feature bit set for aligned allocations. A filesystem
with 0/0 for sunit/swidth does not have the superblock bit set....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-09  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-07 16:37 Small files perform much faster on newly formatted fs? Norbert Veber
2011-06-08  7:11 ` Michael Monnerie
2011-06-08 12:26   ` Norbert Veber
2011-06-08 13:47     ` Michael Monnerie
2011-06-08 18:58       ` Norbert Veber
2011-06-09  5:44         ` Michael Monnerie
2011-06-08 20:52     ` Eric Sandeen
2011-06-08 21:16       ` Eric Sandeen
2011-06-09  1:29     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-06-09  8:22       ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-06-09 13:48       ` Norbert Veber
2011-06-09 16:30         ` Michael Monnerie
2011-06-09 20:30           ` Norbert Veber
2011-06-09 21:17         ` Dave Chinner
2011-06-10  0:54           ` Norbert Veber

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