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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: "AndrewL733@aol.com" <AndrewL733@aol.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS and DPX files
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:34:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEF506A.8060803@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AEC4BAA.20606@aol.com>

AndrewL733@aol.com wrote:
> 
>> Maybe  you should try mounting the XFS filesystem with these options :
>> nobarrier,noatime
>>
>>   
> Thanks.  Already doing that -- 3ware controller does not support 
> barriers, so that's automatically ruled out (you see a message in the 
> syslog when mounting the filesystem that barriers will not be used).  
> Already mounting with "noatime".  Also have been trying "filestreams".


Filestreams is really only useful if you have multiple threads writing 
in this manner - for example 2 different movie streams.

Normally an allocation group is chosen for all new files in a directory, 
so if you have 2 streams to 2 directories you are writing to 2 ag's ... 
all is good until those ags get full and things spill over.  At that 
point you may wind up interleaving those files from both streams in a 
3rd ag.

the filestreams option more or less locks out the new ag from other 
streams, so that stuff stays segregated.

If this is your situation (multiple streams, each to their own 
directory), then filestreams may help.  I think for a single stream of 
files, for a single video source, it won't matter.

-Eric

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-02 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-31 12:26 XFS and DPX files AndrewL733
2009-10-31 14:18 ` Emmanuel Florac
2009-10-31 14:37   ` AndrewL733
2009-10-31 16:48     ` Emmanuel Florac
2009-11-02 11:05       ` Michael Monnerie
2009-11-02 17:52         ` Emmanuel Florac
2009-11-02 21:50           ` AndrewL733
2009-11-02 22:26             ` Emmanuel Florac
2009-11-03  3:09             ` Eric Sandeen
2009-11-02 21:58           ` Michael Monnerie
2009-11-03 11:19             ` Emmanuel Florac
2009-11-03 20:58               ` Michael Monnerie
2009-12-14 16:17             ` Martin Spott
2009-12-14 17:49               ` Michael Weissenbacher
2009-11-02 21:34     ` Eric Sandeen [this message]

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