Hi All, I'm about to create a XFS file system on a MD RAID6 made up of 12 3T drives. This is the command line that I was planning to use: # mkfs.xfs -l lazy-count=1 -s size=4096 -N /dev/md7 = sectsz=4096 attr=2, projid32bit=0 data = bsize=4096 blocks=7320776704,imaxpct=5 = sunit=128 swidth=1280 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=521728, version=2 = sectsz=4096 sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=1 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 This is the MD examine for one of the drives: Nitrogen:~# mdadm -E /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2: Magic : a92b4efc Version : 1.2 Feature Map : 0x1 Array UUID : ee8cb70e:2f40f34f:79d46ade:4b12c78b Creation Time : Tue Nov 1 17:03:38 2011 Raid Level : raid6 Raid Devices : 12 Avail Dev Size : 5856624640 (2792.66 GiB 2998.59 GB) Array Size : 58566236160 (27926.56 GiB 29985.91 GB) Used Dev Size : 5856623616 (2792.66 GiB 2998.59 GB) Data Offset : 2048 sectors Super Offset : 8 sectors State : clean Device UUID : 72fa45ca:775f244d:15b030fe:f569fe8c Internal Bitmap : 8 sectors from superblock Update Time : Thu Nov 3 11:07:39 2011 Checksum : 4c72bfd4 - correct Events : 11029 Layout : left-symmetric Chunk Size : 512K Device Role : Active device 0 Array State : AAAAAAAAAAAA ('A' == active, '.' == missing) # mkfs.xfs -V mkfs.xfs version 3.1.4 System is Debian Squeeze with self compiled 3.0.8 kernel (64bit) Should I change any default parameters to mkfs.xfs If I didn't provide any important info let me know. Thanks in advance, K -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html