Hi! I have a XFS file system which lies on a 10-disk RAID-6 device that was created with Chunk Size = 1MiB. On mkfs.xfs time this was - as far as i know - specified with "-d su=1m,sw=8". xfs_info shows the following: meta-data=/dev/sdb1 isize=256 agcount=15, agsize=268435200 blks = sectsz=512 attr=2 data = bsize=4096 blocks=3905945088, imaxpct=5 = sunit=256 swidth=2048 blks naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0 log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=521728, version=2 = sectsz=512 sunit=8 blks, lazy-count=1 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 Interestingly, the sunit value of the log seems to be incorrect - as it should be 256 too, like the sunit value of the data. I am pretty sure the reason is that the log sunit cannot be 256 blks (=1024KiB) and because of this mkfs.xfs did fall back to the default of 8 blks (=32KiB). I found evidence of this in the following thread: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-06/msg00431.html What i want to achieve is to set the log sunit to the maximum possible of 64 blks (=256KiB). - Is that even possible without doing mkfs.xfs (and losing all data)? - Would it be an improvement performance-wise? - Would changing to an external log help? tia, Michael _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs