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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Helmut Tessarek <tessarek@evermeet.cx>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: How to format RAID1 correctly
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:21:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54222AA4.5010501@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5422285B.6010306@evermeet.cx>

On 9/23/14 9:11 PM, Helmut Tessarek wrote:
> On 23.09.14 22:07 , Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> but!  your raid doesn't have a 64k stripe, so that doesn't apply.
> 
> Yep, that's true, but see below.
> 
>> no geometry because md0 raid1 doesn't export any stripe geometry.
> 
> [root@atvie01s ~]# cat /proc/mdstat
> Personalities : [raid1]
> md0 : active raid1 sdb1[0] sdd1[1]
>       3906784064 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
>       bitmap: 0/30 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk
> 
> So for some reason it shows a 64k chunk size even for RAID1.
> 
> That was what got me confused.

Hm, 65536KB sounds like 64MB...

Anyway, mkfs.xfs picks up the queue's minimum IO size for
sunit, and optimal io size for swidth.

So:

blkid # blockdev --getiomin --getioopt /dev/md0 

(which here returns:
512
0
here)

will show you what your raid's queue is actually reporting,
and what mkfs.xfs will pick up.

-Eric




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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-24  2:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-24  0:46 How to format RAID1 correctly Helmut Tessarek
2014-09-24  2:05 ` Helmut Tessarek
2014-09-24  2:07 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-09-24  2:11   ` Helmut Tessarek
2014-09-24  2:21     ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2014-09-24  2:30       ` Helmut Tessarek
2014-09-24  3:05     ` stan hoeppner
2014-09-24  3:15       ` Helmut Tessarek
2014-09-24  4:09         ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-09-24 15:53           ` Helmut Tessarek
2014-09-24 16:18             ` Eric Sandeen
2014-09-24 19:06             ` Stan Hoeppner

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