On 10/03/2012 02:36 AM, Bryan Whitehead wrote: > Look at this guide: > https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Storage/2.0/html-single/Administration_Guide/index.html#chap-User_Guide-Setting_Volumes > > I noticed this: "you must increase the inode size to 512 bytes from > the default 256 bytes" > > With an example mkfs.xfs like: mkfs.xfs -i size=512 DEVICE > > I didn't do this when first setting up my bricks. Will I suddenly be > boned some random time in the future? You may see poorer performance than you would on an xfs with size=512; that's about it. When all the xattrs won't fit in a single inode they'll spill over into a second inode. The extra overhead of reading the extra inode is where the performance impact occurs. -- Kaleb
