Leslie Rhorer wrote:
3. The man page says "When a filesystem is created on a logical volume device, mkfs.xfs will automatically query the logical volume for appropriate sunit and swidth values." Does this mean it is best for me to simply not worry about setting these parameters and let mkfs.xfs do it, or is there a good reason for me to intervene?
XFS will do exactly that and choose the correct sunit and swidth based upon the RAID stripe size you have chosen - do not worry about it.
5. Finally, one other thing concerns me a bit. The researchers I read suggested XFS has by far the worst file deletion performance of any of the journaling file systems, and Reiserfs supposedly has the best. I find that shocking, since deleting multi-gigabyte files on the existing file system can take a rather long time - close to a minute. Small to moderate sized files get deleted in a flash, but 20GB or 30GB files take forever. I didn't
Quad core Xeon 2.8GHz md RAID6 of 16 x 750GB. Delete 20GB file: time rm -f dump real 0m1.849s user 0m0.000s sys 0m1.633s Regards, Richard -- 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
