After installing e2fsprogs-1.41.6.sun1-0redhat it appears the default inode
size for ext file systems changes from 128 to 256 (see /etc/mke2fs.conf). This
caused us several days of head scratching as we were trying to figure out why
grub wouldn't work on our oss's where we had this package
Andreas and Oleg,
Sorry to bother you again.
Is there any way to force an RPC page size of 256kb and pack several 4kb
random operations into a 256k page so the final throughput can increase?
Thanks
Jeffrey A. Bennett
HPC Systems Engineer
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Hello!
This only works if all the requests are for the same file, then it is done
for you automatically
(assuming that these are write requests and there is not sync in between.
It's impossible to do
for reads for obvious reason that read is a synchronous operation and by
the time we
