On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > mke2fs -j -m 0 -b 4096 -i 4096 -R stride=16 > > Do you expect to have so many small files in this huge filesystem? > Basically, the "-i" parameter is telling mke2fs what you think the > average file size will be, so 4kB is very small. not really, i thought the -b was telling this ? i think average filesize should be somewhere from 1-5 megabyte (zipfiles few megabyte/videofiles (can be a few gigabyte)/installation files for programmes) i also wonder what kind of chunk-size i need to use i use 64k now, but i wonder if 256k (or something bigger?) would be better (does chunk size difference in performance between a 4disk raid5 and a 15disk raid5 ?) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
