[CentOS] new RAID5 array: 3x500GB with XFS

Sat Jul 4 06:14:20 UTC 2009
James A. Peltier <jpeltier at fas.sfu.ca>

On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Coert Waagmeester wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have yesterday after some typos, sent my ext3 RAID5 array to the
> void...
>
> I want to recreate it now, but I read on
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Disk_Optimization
> that you can optimize the filesystem on top of the RAID.
>
> Will this wiki article be exactly the same for XFS?
>
> Is it worth the trouble to also create an LVM volume on the RAID array?
>
>
> Regards,
> Coert
>
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You have to understand the details of how the raid was built, stripe size, 
logical unit number and RAID-5 itself to properly optimize.  Google for 
XFS performance tuning and you'll find lots of details.

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