From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C957129DFE for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:46:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72DF304039 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 16:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.141]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id Q6zQuZBsylzIYXrn for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2014 16:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:46:23 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: xfs help question Message-ID: <20140330234623.GC16336@dastard> References: <6997ecc6ee5c7096ded12e8ad3d77d12@zbfmail.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6997ecc6ee5c7096ded12e8ad3d77d12@zbfmail.de> 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 Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: weber@zbfmail.de Cc: Xfs 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. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs