>>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:37 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dott, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are trying to evaluate XFS performance, but cannot get the mkfs to > make a xfs filesys. We are sles9 sp3 and when we try to do the mkfs > command get the following: > > mkfs -t xfs -s size=4096 /dev/dasdj > mkfs.xfs: warning - cannot set blocksize on block device /dev/dasdj: > Invalid argument > meta-data=/dev/dasdj isize=256 agcount=8, agsize=70605 blks > = sectsz=4096 > data = bsize=4096 blocks=564840, imaxpct=25 > = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks, unwritten=1 > naming =version 2 bsize=4096 > log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=2560, version=2 > = sectsz=4096 sunit=1 blks > realtime =none extsz=65536 blocks=0, rtextents=0
That looks like it worked to me. Did you try to actually mount it? One caveat though, you really should put a partition on the volume, and put the file system on /dev/dasdj1. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
