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Hey I've been watching the thread on and off. How large in the file system you are trying to share? What will it / they be used?<BR>
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On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 14:19 -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 at 11:12am, <A HREF="mailto:aurfalien@gmail.com">aurfalien@gmail.com</A> wrote</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> My RAID has a strip size of of 32KB and a block size of 512bytes.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I've usually just done blind XFS formats but would like to tune it for</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> smaller files. Of course big/small is relative but in my env, small</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> means sub 300MB or so.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> What would your XFS tuning params be for such an env?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">It's been a long while since I've done tuned XFS formats. But you also </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">need to consider how many disks are in the array and what RAID level </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">you're using.</FONT>
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