On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 09:12:20AM +0200, Marko Weber|8000 wrote: > > hello again me ;-), > i thought best place to ask this is here. > i read the faq alot last days but have still questions: > > i got a server now with 4 Disks, > i plan to do an raid5 with linux soft raid. > On the server is planed to store 'larger' from 1GB up to 60GB. > > what would be best settings when formatting with xfs? > is it better to use '-b size=4096' or the '512'? > should i manipulate the '-i size=' to 2048? or use the default? Use the defaults. The defaults on md/dm raid will do the right things to configure the filesystem and handle crash safety properly. Unless you have experience with XFS and the storage stack and know exactly what you *need to do*, tweaking knobs will only cause bad things to happen to you and your data. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
