[CentOS] XFS : Taking the plunge

2014-01-21 Thread Steve Brooks
Hi All, I have been trying out XFS given it is going to be the file system of choice from upstream in el7. Starting with an Adaptec ASR71605 populated with sixteen 4TB WD enterprise hard drives. The version of OS is 6.4 x86_64 and has 64G of RAM. This next part was not well researched as I

Re: [CentOS] XFS : Taking the plunge

2014-01-21 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-01-21, Steve Brooks ste...@mcs.st-and.ac.uk wrote: mkfs.xfs -d su=512k,sw=14 /dev/sda where 512k is the Stripe-unit size of the single logical device built on the raid controller. 14 is from the total number of drives minus two (raid 6 redundancy). The usual advice on the XFS list

Re: [CentOS] XFS : Taking the plunge

2014-01-21 Thread Steve Brooks
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Keith Keller wrote: On 2014-01-21, Steve Brooks ste...@mcs.st-and.ac.uk wrote: mkfs.xfs -d su=512k,sw=14 /dev/sda where 512k is the Stripe-unit size of the single logical device built on the raid controller. 14 is from the total number of drives minus two (raid 6

Re: [CentOS] XFS : Taking the plunge

2014-01-21 Thread James A. Peltier
Hi, - Original Message - | | Hi All, | | I have been trying out XFS given it is going to be the file system of | choice from upstream in el7. Starting with an Adaptec ASR71605 | populated | with sixteen 4TB WD enterprise hard drives. The version of OS is 6.4 | x86_64 and has 64G of RAM.

Re: [CentOS] XFS : Taking the plunge

2014-01-21 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-01-21, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: Changing to inode64 and back is no problem. Keep in mind that inode64 may not work with clients running older operating systems. This bit us when we had a mixture of Solaris 8/9 clients. I assume you are referring to NFS specifically;