From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: weber@zbfmail.de
Cc: Xfs <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: xfs help question
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:46:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140330234623.GC16336@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6997ecc6ee5c7096ded12e8ad3d77d12@zbfmail.de>
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 09:12:20AM +0200, Marko Weber|8000 wrote:
>
> hello again me ;-),
> i thought best place to ask this is here.
> i read the faq alot last days but have still questions:
>
> i got a server now with 4 Disks,
> i plan to do an raid5 with linux soft raid.
> On the server is planed to store 'larger' from 1GB up to 60GB.
>
> what would be best settings when formatting with xfs?
> is it better to use '-b size=4096' or the '512'?
> should i manipulate the '-i size=' to 2048? or use the default?
Use the defaults. The defaults on md/dm raid will do the right
things to configure the filesystem and handle crash safety properly.
Unless you have experience with XFS and the storage stack and know
exactly what you *need to do*, tweaking knobs will only cause bad
things to happen to you and your data.
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-30 7:12 xfs help question Marko Weber|8000
2014-03-30 20:22 ` Emmanuel Florac
2014-03-30 23:46 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
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