On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 08:50:38AM +0100, Manny wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm not sure if this is intended behavior, but I was a bit stumped > when I formatted a 30TB volume (12x3TB minus 2x3TB for parity in RAID > 6) with XFS and noticed that there were only 22 TB left. I just called > mkfs.xfs with default parameters - except for swith and sunit which > match the RAID setup. > > Is it normal that I lost 8TB just for the file system? That's almost > 30% of the volume. Should I set the block size higher? Or should I > increase the number of allocation groups? Would that make a > difference? Whats the preferred method for handling such large > volumes? Where did you get the sizes for the raw volume and the filesystem usage from? _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
