Seth Mos wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Dirk Steinberg wrote:
> > I remember that some time ago there were mount
> > options for XFS named kio and kiocluster.
> >
> > Inspecting my copy of the XFS CVS tree I was unable
> > to locate these options in the source, so apparently
> > they are gone.
> >
> > Does this mean that the corresponding functionality
> > has been removed, or is this now default?
> >
> > Should kiocluster indeed be enabled by default nowadays,
> > does it work with both SCSI and EIDE, as well as with
> > MD and LVM?
>
> kiocluster is gone and not available untill there is decided what to build
> into the kernel. In this case we are following standard kernels.
> There is probably going to be some form of kiocluster in 2.5 but the
> actual shape has yet to be formed.
What about kio? I see it's implemented for both SCSI and EIDE.
How about MD and LVM? Should I expect a significant performance
penalty for using XFS on top of LVM or MD instead of running
it directly on the physical disk partition?
- Dirk
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