Re: recommended raidtab ???

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 16:05, Seth Mos wrote:

> 
> mkfs.xfs has some knowledge about software raid modules and will 
> automagically do this for you.
> If you are going to have lot's of files and creating deleting it might be 
> worth something to mkfs.xfs your fs with mkfs.xfs -l size=32768 /dev/foo 
> and mount that raid with logbufs=8 if you have a lot of memory.

Note that logbufs=2 is the default and consumes 64K of memory for
logbuffers for the fs. logbufs=8 will consume 256K, so it depends
on your definition of lots of memory.

Steve


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