From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q1DIAEH1029924 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:10:14 -0600 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.166.109.252]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id zZsZ3VVoD9kFYPS1 (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:10:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:10:12 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: XFS unlink still slow on 3.1.9 kernel ? Message-ID: <20120213181012.GA27962@infradead.org> References: <4F394116.8080200@cape-horn-eng.com> <20120213170825.GA7197@infradead.org> <4F394442.9020307@cape-horn-eng.com> <20120213171556.GA13449@infradead.org> <4F3947D6.5060402@cape-horn-eng.com> <20120213172937.GA25248@infradead.org> <4F394E10.9000804@cape-horn-eng.com> <20120213180220.GA24163@infradead.org> <4F395134.8030202@cape-horn-eng.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F395134.8030202@cape-horn-eng.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Richard Ems Cc: Christoph Hellwig , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 07:06:44PM +0100, Richard Ems wrote: > So > > 1. use kernels > 3.2, if XFS partition was not created using "-i size=1024" Yes. > 2. if XFS partition was created using "-i size=1024", kernels < 3.2 will > also be fast while unlinking files with out of line attributes Exactly. For workloads like yours creating the large inodes (probably only with 512 byte inodes, though) will be preferably if you have a choice, as it should be even faster. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs