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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>,
	Norbert Veber <nveber@pyre.virge.net>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Small files perform much faster on newly formatted fs?
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 04:22:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110609082217.GA7129@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110609012907.GR32466@dastard>

On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 11:29:07AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > 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....

The other thing that sticks out is the lack of lazy-count for the old
filesystem.  That will give a lot of additional superblock updates on
the old one.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-09  8:22 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
2011-06-09  8:22       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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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