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From: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: "xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: xfs_growfs / planned resize / performance impact
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:09:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <501B6B04.2090002@profihost.ag> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <501B4D7E.1000303@sandeen.net>

Am 03.08.2012 06:03, schrieb Eric Sandeen:
> On 7/31/12 8:56 AM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> i'm planning to create a couple of VMs with just 30GB of space while using xfs as the main filesystem.
>>
>> Now i alreay know that some of the VMs will grow up to 250GB while resizing the block device and using xfs_growfs.
>>
>> Should i take care of that and format these disks with special parameters?
>>
>> I've discovered that a 500GB volume has agcount=4 and 64000 blocks of internal log - while a 300GB volume resized to 500GB has agcount 7 ad only 40960 blocks of internal log.
>>
>> Is it a problem if this grow will happen in small portions (30GB => 50GB => 75GB => 100GB => ... 300GB)?
>
> This incremental part doesn't matter a bit.  The first mkfs will choose the AG count & size according to defaults;
 > further growth after this will add new (possibly partial) AGs of that 
pre-chosen size.

OK thanks for your reply. But does this influence performance? Should i 
perhaps start creating the 30GB with agcount 1 so that while raising the 
disk i don't end up with such a high agcount value? Does it make sense 
to create a bigger internal log from he beginning?

Thanks

Stefan

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-03  6:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-31 13:56 xfs_growfs / planned resize / performance impact Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2012-07-31 17:27 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-03  4:03 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-08-03  6:09   ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG [this message]
2012-08-03 13:46     ` Eric Sandeen
2012-08-05 11:03     ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-08-05 12:34       ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-05 13:49         ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-08-05 20:26           ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-05 15:54       ` Stefan Priebe
2012-08-06 11:42         ` Michael Monnerie
2012-08-04 22:43 ` Dave Chinner
2012-08-05  5:46   ` Stefan Priebe
2012-08-05 11:06     ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-08-05 11:35     ` Andy Bennett
2012-08-05 20:57     ` Dave Chinner

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