Le Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:52:40 +0100 Richard Ems <richard.ems@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> écrivait: > Hi list, > > We are getting now 32 x 3 TB Hitachi SATA HDDs. > I plan to configure them in a single RAID 6 set with one or two > hot-standby discs. The raw storage space will then be 28 x 3 TB = 84 > TB. On this one RAID set I will create only one volume. > Any thoughts on this? If you'd rather go for more safety you could build 2 16 drives RAID-6 arrays instead. I'd be somewhat reluctant to make a 30 drives array --though current drives are quite safe apparently. > > *MKFS* > We also heavily use ACLs for almost all of our files. Christoph > Hellwig suggested in a previous mail to use "-i size=512" on XFS > creation, so my mkfs.xfs would look something like: > > mkfs.xfs -i size=512 -d su=stripe_size,sw=28 -L Backup_2 /dev/sdX1 Looks OK to me. > > *MOUNT* > On mount I will use the options > > mount -o noatime,nobarrier,nofail,logbufs=8,logbsize=256k,inode64 > /dev/sdX1 /mount_point I think that the logbufs/logbsize option matches the default here. Use delaylog if applicable. See the xfs FAQ. > What about the largeio mount option? In which cases would it be > useful? > If you're mostly writing/reading large files. Like really large (several megabytes and more). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique | Intellique | <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | +33 1 78 94 84 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs