On 6/3/11 10:33 AM, prad wrote: > i'm new to xfs (courtesy of most helpful and encouraging commentary by > stan hoeppner!) and i've seen some advice which says to make the > block size -> 512 > directory size -> 4096 > > on the other hand, i've also come across webpages which say don't mess > around! keep the defaults as they are unless you are absolutely sure > that changing it suits your purpose and know why. Yup. See "Q: I want to tune my XFS filesystems for <something> " http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_I_want_to_tune_my_XFS_filesystems_for_.3Csomething.3E > my question is for the data storage area on a web/email server. we're > mainly going to have small files there and the email part will have only > temporary files for the most part since people will download (ie pop). > > it makes sense to make the block size = 512, but i wonder if it really > matters noticeably. the server is not a heavily visited one and only on > very rare occasions will we get around 50000 hits/day - most of the time > we're looking at under 10000 and that is with all the domains combined. If space efficiency is a consideration then smaller blocksizes might be useful. Not so much for hits per day, but for how many files you expect to store at any one time; you'll waste ((blocksize / 2) * nr files) on average. -Eric _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
