From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id p53GF7xe019828 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 11:15:08 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 76E4349BF90 for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2011 09:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id ftOxDmUpp45lliOT for ; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QSX1c-0004ln-KW for linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:15:04 +0200 Received: from s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net ([70.67.174.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:15:04 +0200 Received: from prad by s0106000acd1d509c.du.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:15:04 +0200 From: prad Subject: altering defaults Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:33:06 -0700 Message-ID: <8762onaq19.fsf@psinom.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com i'm new to xfs (courtesy of most helpful and encouraging commentary by stan hoeppner!) and i've seen some advice which says to make the block size -> 512 directory size -> 4096 on the other hand, i've also come across webpages which say don't mess around! keep the defaults as they are unless you are absolutely sure that changing it suits your purpose and know why. my question is for the data storage area on a web/email server. we're mainly going to have small files there and the email part will have only temporary files for the most part since people will download (ie pop). it makes sense to make the block size = 512, but i wonder if it really matters noticeably. the server is not a heavily visited one and only on very rare occasions will we get around 50000 hits/day - most of the time we're looking at under 10000 and that is with all the domains combined. -- in friendship, prad _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs