I've never bothered changing max inodes or block sizes, but you can partition the drives to use the outer edge of the drive only, otherwise known as short stroking.
Since tracks on the outer edge of the platter have more sectors than the tracks on the inner part, more data can be stored on the outer edge. This means that there is less head movement and results in increased I/O and minmum throughput closer to maximum throughput. Here is an article from a couple years ago showing throughput at different partition sizes and how the I/O is almost doubled by short stroking. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157-6.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157-8.html On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote: > I'm building new webserver which will have either 2TB or 4TB of drive > space. > > Most of the space will be devoted to the /home partition. I'd like to use > whatever the standard partition type is for CentOS if possible. > > With such huge drives, and Maildir directories installed in /home (in > Maildir > each email is in its own file), what should I look at in terms of block > sizes > and maximum inodes, to keep maximum efficiency, in speed of access, memory > usage, and drive space usage. > > Would I be better off creating several smaller machines as VPS instances? > > I imagine figuring this out is a journey rather than a simple answer but > I'd > like to move quickly to getting this server installed, so I hope I'll get > some > good information here. > > Thanks. > > Jeff > -- > Jeff Lasman > Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 > Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only > Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
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