On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 01:18:53PM +0100, Michael Weissenbacher wrote: > 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). Why? Is there a performance problem with the default setting? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
