Re: XFS and DPX files

Emmanuel Florac
2009-11-02T17:52:42Z

Le Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:05:27 +0100
Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at> écrivait:

> I believe for a 15 drive RAID-6, where 2 disks are used for
> redundancy, the correct mkfs would be:
> mkfs -t xfs -d su=65536,sw=13 /dev/sdXX

Yes you're right, I replied a bit too quickly :)

> Another thing to try is if it would help to turn disk cache writes
> *on*, despite all warnings if the FAQ.

The 3Ware is so slow it's almost unusable without write cache. I bet he
already uses it anyway.

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