On a running 64 bit CentOS 5.6 box is it possible to convert from Ext3 to Ext4 to improve performance? Right now I can deal with a few hours of downtime on it. This is an email server with lots of I/O due to seek time. Software RAID1 as well. Will Ext4 offer much of an improvement?
on 4/19/2011 10:42 AM Matt spake the following:
On a running 64 bit CentOS 5.6 box is it possible to convert from Ext3 to Ext4 to improve performance? Right now I can deal with a few hours of downtime on it. This is an email server with lots of I/O due to seek time. Software RAID1 as well. Will Ext4 offer much of an improvement?
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/96/html/Migration...
on 4/19/2011 11:16 AM Scott Silva spake the following:
on 4/19/2011 10:42 AM Matt spake the following:
On a running 64 bit CentOS 5.6 box is it possible to convert from Ext3 to Ext4 to improve performance? Right now I can deal with a few hours of downtime on it. This is an email server with lots of I/O due to seek time. Software RAID1 as well. Will Ext4 offer much of an improvement?
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/96/html/Migration...
I know it is for RH 6, but probably sound advice.
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote:
on 4/19/2011 11:16 AM Scott Silva spake the following:
on 4/19/2011 10:42 AM Matt spake the following:
On a running 64 bit CentOS 5.6 box is it possible to convert from Ext3 to Ext4 to improve performance? Right now I can deal with a few hours of downtime on it. This is an email server with lots of I/O due to seek time. Software RAID1 as well. Will Ext4 offer much of an improvement?
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/96/html/Migration...
I know it is for RH 6, but probably sound advice.
I converted my file server to ext4. The conversion went smoothly, but I highly recommend making a backup. You need to first turn on the ext4 features then run fsck to finish the process. The conversion takes as long as a fsck takes on ext3.
tune4fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/ e4fsck -yfDC0 /dev/
Ryan
On Apr 19, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Ryan Wagoner rswagoner@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Scott Silva ssilva@sgvwater.com wrote:
on 4/19/2011 11:16 AM Scott Silva spake the following:
on 4/19/2011 10:42 AM Matt spake the following:
On a running 64 bit CentOS 5.6 box is it possible to convert from Ext3 to Ext4 to improve performance? Right now I can deal with a few hours of downtime on it. This is an email server with lots of I/O due to seek time. Software RAID1 as well. Will Ext4 offer much of an improvement?
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/96/html/Migration...
I know it is for RH 6, but probably sound advice.
I converted my file server to ext4. The conversion went smoothly, but I highly recommend making a backup. You need to first turn on the ext4 features then run fsck to finish the process. The conversion takes as long as a fsck takes on ext3.
tune4fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/ e4fsck -yfDC0 /dev/
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Mail servers with high I/O won't get much (if any) of a performance boost. It's an i/o issue not something that ext4 can help you with except possibly a faster fsck if things go down. Things like delayed allocation.. extents.. Don't help with millions of tiny files.
Faster drives and hardware raid with write cache. Better if you can have multiple disk sets and spread i/o around.
Brandon
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Brandon Ooi said the following on 19/04/11 21:32:
Mail servers with high I/O won't get much (if any) of a performance boost. It's an i/o issue not something that ext4 can help you with except possibly a faster fsck if things go down. Things like delayed allocation.. extents.. Don't help with millions of tiny files.
Faster drives and hardware raid with write cache. Better if you can have multiple disk sets and spread i/o around.
Do you think that under VMware ESXi it would be better or worse to migrate to ext4?
Ciao, luigi
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Den 19/04/2011 19.42 skrev "Matt" lm7812@gmail.com:
On a running 64 bit CentOS 5.6 box is it possible to convert from Ext3 to Ext4 to improve performance?
This is entirely from memory, so it might be incorrect and not relevant anymore: When ext4 got released, it was possible to upgrade ext3 to ext4, but while you would gain some ext4 features and minor performance improvements, the only way to get native ext4 performance, was to delete and recreate the partition.
Best regards Kenni
On 19/04/2011 23:51, Kenni Lund wrote:
Den 19/04/2011 19.42 skrev "Matt" <lm7812@gmail.com mailto:lm7812@gmail.com>:
On a running 64 bit CentOS 5.6 box is it possible to convert from Ext3 to Ext4 to improve performance?
This is entirely from memory, so it might be incorrect and not relevant anymore: When ext4 got released, it was possible to upgrade ext3 to ext4, but while you would gain some ext4 features and minor performance improvements, the only way to get native ext4 performance, was to delete and recreate the partition.
That's not quite true, you can force files on a partition to be re-created using extents with something like the below:
find /home -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chattr +e find /home -xdev -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chattr +e
Cheers,
John.
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:08 PM, John Beranek john@redux.org.uk wrote:
That's not quite true, you can force files on a partition to be re-created using extents with something like the below:
find /home -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chattr +e find /home -xdev -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chattr +e
Cheers,
John.
chattr and lsattr shipped with CentOS 5.6 do not seem ext4 aware. Those utilities come from e2fsprogs and e4fsprogs doesn't include alternate versions. +e is an invalid parameter for chattr and lsattr doesn't show the extent attribute for any files.
Ryan
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