On Jun 24, 2008 08:30 -0400, Richard Jackson wrote: > If this is not the case then I suggest adding something similar to Ted's > or Andreas' descriptions to replace the current stride mke2fs man page. > > If nothing else change from > > stride=<stripe-size> > Configure the filesystem for a RAID array with > <stripe-size> filesystem blocks per stripe. > > to > > stride=<stride-size> > > The number of filesystem blocks on a single disk. The purpose > is to spread the filesystem metadata across the disks. For > example, if the RAID chunk/segment size is 64KB and the > filesystem block size is 4KB, then the stride size is 16 > (64KB/4KB). The patch to add the "stride" and "stripe-size" options to mke2fs and mke2fs(8) man pages were already included upstream for 1.40.7 or earlier. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
