On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:43:24 -0400 (EDT), Justin Piszcz wrote: > Have you checked fragmentation? You know, that never even occurred to me. I've gotten into the mind set that it's generally not a problem under Linux. > xfs_db -c frag -f /dev/md3 > > What does this report? # xfs_db -c frag -f /dev/md0 actual 1828276, ideal 1708782, fragmentation factor 6.54% Good or bad? Seeing as this filesystem will be three years old in December, that doesn't seem overly bad. I'm currently looking to things like http://lwn.net/Articles/249450/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/242559/ for potential help, fortunately it seems I won't have too long to wait. > Justin. Cheers, Andrew - 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
