Note: I have splitted my previous letter for easyer discusion...
This have only Question-2 the storage with only normal files and samba
share.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Chinner" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Janos Haar" <janos.haar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: 2 question about XFS fragmentation and _fsr
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 07:39:07PM +0200, Janos Haar wrote:
Hello list,
Question 2:
One of our customers have one storage wich is exactly the same like
the one wich is described on the Q1, but only used for samba storage
for storing media files (big files.)
I am sure, there is no torrent or similar, and i have told to the
customers on the beginning "don't write more files parallel, to
avoid fragmentation", but today the storage is >95% fragmented.
Once again, what does 95% fragmented mean?
[root@Clarus-gl2k10-2 admin]# cat xfs_get_frag_ratio
echo loop0
xfs_db -c frag -r /dev/loop0
[root@Clarus-gl2k10-2 admin]# ./xfs_get_frag_ratio
loop0
actual 51179670, ideal 5914, fragmentation factor 99.99%
The customer sad, he only does file write one by one, and nothing more.
How can this be?
Depends on your samba configuration to how it does writes. If it is
conigured to do sync writes then it will have all sorts of
fragmentation problems. So without more details about the workload,
the kernel that is being used, the fragmentation occurring (xfs_bmap
is your friend) and the samba config, there's little that can be
suggested here.
[root@Clarus-gl2k10-2 ~]# uname -a
Linux Clarus-gl2k10-2 2.6.28.10 #6 SMP Thu Apr 29 01:00:58 CEST 2010 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
In kernel, i have tried out the pdflush-patch wich let me set the number of
pdflushd-s to 8-64.
This was not a good idea i know that, but if i am right this have no effet
to the fragmentation because pdflush not works on the FS layer.
Or i have missed something?
[root@Clarus-gl2k10-2 ~]# smbd -V
Version 3.0.23c-2
smb.conf (filtered the # lines and the ; lines)
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = Gladiator-StreamLine-gl2k10-2
security = user
load printers = yes
cups options = raw
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
dns proxy = no
[store]
......
The workload is one PC for "administration" namely filling up the storage,
and 2 client wich can reach the media files in RO mount point.
The customer knows about "only write on file at one time".
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks,
Janos
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