On 7/31/12 8:56 AM, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: > Hello list, > > i'm planning to create a couple of VMs with just 30GB of space while using xfs as the main filesystem. > > Now i alreay know that some of the VMs will grow up to 250GB while resizing the block device and using xfs_growfs. > > Should i take care of that and format these disks with special parameters? > > I've discovered that a 500GB volume has agcount=4 and 64000 blocks of internal log - while a 300GB volume resized to 500GB has agcount 7 ad only 40960 blocks of internal log. > > Is it a problem if this grow will happen in small portions (30GB => 50GB => 75GB => 100GB => ... 300GB)? This incremental part doesn't matter a bit. The first mkfs will choose the AG count & size according to defaults; further growth after this will add new (possibly partial) AGs of that pre-chosen size. -Eric > Thanks! > > Greets, > Stefan > > _______________________________________________ > xfs mailing list > xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs > _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
