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From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: Peter Vajgel <pv@fb.com>
Cc: Jef Fox <jef.fox@kinetx.com>, "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: XFS Preallocation
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:12:12 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D48691C.8000006@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F5ACD12257C714E9C0535D0A839171802AB01@SC-MBX02-2.TheFacebook.com>

Peter Vajgel put forth on 2/1/2011 1:20 PM:

> At the scale we operate it does. We have multiple variables so the number of combinations is large. We have hit every single possible hardware and software problem and problem resolution can take months if it takes days to reproduce the problem. Hardware vendors (disk, controller, motherboard manufacturers) are much more responsive when you can reproduce a problem on the fly in seconds (especially in comparative benchmarking). The tests usually run only couple of minutes. With 12x3TB (possibly multiplied by a factor of X with our new platform) it would be unacceptable to wait for writes to finish.

Hi Peter,

When you mention scale, you're referring to the storage back end at
facebook.com, your employer, correct?

-- 
Stan


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-01 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-28  2:05 XFS Preallocation Jef Fox
2011-01-28  4:52 ` Dave Chinner
2011-01-28 15:15   ` Jef Fox
2011-01-28 17:33   ` Jef Fox
2011-01-29  0:17     ` Dave Chinner
2011-02-01  4:45       ` Peter Vajgel
2011-02-01  8:03         ` Dave Chinner
2011-02-01 19:20           ` Peter Vajgel
2011-02-01 20:12             ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2011-02-01 22:47               ` Peter Vajgel
2011-02-02  0:07             ` Dave Chinner

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