ACK! At one point some one stated that they were having problems with XFS crashing under high NFS loads... Did it look something like this? -Adam Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: md0 (logdev: internal) Filesystem "md0": XFS internal error xlog_valid_rec_header(1) at line 3478 of file fs/xfs/xfs_log_recover.c. Caller 0xffffffff802114fc Call Trace: <ffffffff80211437>{xlog_valid_rec_header+231} <ffffffff802114fc>{xlog_do_recovery_pass+172} <ffffffff8020f0c8>{xlog_find_tail+2344} <ffffffff802217e1>{kmem_alloc+97} <ffffffff80211bb0>{xlog_recover+192} <ffffffff8020c564>{xfs_log_mount+1380} <ffffffff80213968>{xfs_mountfs+2712} <ffffffff8016aa3a>{set_blocksize+138} <ffffffff80224d1d>{xfs_setsize_buftarg_flags+61} <ffffffff802192b4>{xfs_mount+2724} <ffffffff8022ae00>{linvfs_fill_super+0} <ffffffff8022aeb8>{linvfs_fill_super+184} <ffffffff8024a62e>{strlcpy+78} <ffffffff80169db2>{sget+722} <ffffffff8016a460>{set_bdev_super+0} <ffffffff8022ae00>{linvfs_fill_super+0} <ffffffff8022ae00>{linvfs_fill_super+0} <ffffffff8016a5bc>{get_sb_bdev+268} <ffffffff8016a84b>{do_kern_mount+107} <ffffffff8017eed3>{do_mount+1603} <ffffffff8011a2f9>{do_page_fault+1033} <ffffffff80145f66>{find_get_pages+22} <ffffffff8014d57a>{invalidate_mapping_pages+202} <ffffffff80149f99>{__alloc_pages+89} <ffffffff8014a234>{__get_free_pages+52} <ffffffff8017f257>{sys_mount+151} <ffffffff8010a996>{system_call+126} XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 990 XFS: log mount failed Adam Talbot wrote: > Trying to test for tuning with different chunk's. Just finished 16K > chunk and am about 20% done with the 32K test. Here are the numbers on > 16K chunk, will send 32, 96,128,192 and 256 as I get them. But keep in > mind each one of these tests take about 4~6 hours, so it is a slow > process... I have settled for XFS as the file system type, it seems to > be able to beat any thing else out there. > -Adam > > XFS > Config=NAS+NFS > RAID6 16K chunk > nas tmp # time tar cf - . | (cd /data ; tar xf - ) > real 252m40.143s > user 1m4.720s > sys 25m6.270s > /dev/md/0 1.1T 371G 748G 34% /data > 4.207 hours @ 90,167M/hour or 1502M/min or 25.05M/sec > > > > > David Greaves wrote: > >> Adam Talbot wrote: >> >> >>> OK, this topic I relay need to get in on. >>> I have spent the last few week bench marking my new 1.2TB, 6 disk, RAID6 >>> array. >>> >>> >> Very interesting. Thanks. >> >> Did you get around to any 'tuning'. >> Things like raid chunk size, external logs for xfs, blockdev readahead >> on the underlying devices and the raid device? >> >> David >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >> >> > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html