Hi,

Its certainly not in any weird units. If it says 1M it will be 1024^2
bytes. It will also be a multiple of the block size (4k unless you've
asked for a smaller size) no matter what rg size is specified,

Steve.

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 11:52 +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> Thanks for the info. Re: the rg size parameter to mkfs.gfs/mkfs.gfs2, can 
> anyone familiar with the code confirm that this is in MiB (1024*1024 bytes), 
> rather than something weird like MB (i.e. 1,000*1,000, but rounded to nearest 
> multiple of block size).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Gordan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Steven Whitehouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "linux clustering" <[email protected]>
> Sent: 11/12/08 11:17
> Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] GFS equivalent of ext3's block group size
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 11:10 +0000, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> > I'm trying to apply some of the ext2/3 based logic to optimizing GFS on a 
> > RAID array. The idea is to try to make sure block groups all start on 
> > different disks, since beginning of each block group sees most access. If 
> > they are all on one disk, this disk becomes the bottleneck.
> > 
> > So my question is, what is the equivalent in GFS? I'm guessing at resource 
> > group, but this only seems adjustable in 1MB increments, which is a bit 
> > large. Is there a way to adjust this with finer granularity?
> > 
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> A resource group is almost the direct equivalent of a block group as you
> suggest. I don't see any reason why we'd need to restrict them to 1M
> intervals though, so I suspect that is entirely down to a decision
> made by the author of mkfs and there is no reason why that couldn't
> be relaxed in the future,
> 
> Steve.
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