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Re: TAKE - shrink xfs inode

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TAKE - shrink xfs inode
From: Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 26 Mar 2002 14:20:01 -0600
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That sounds about right, I was just curious if it was in any way
possibly related to some of the corruption issues. And as such, if it
were, then that might lead into some performance related issues. Thanks
much!

On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 14:09, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 14:10, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > Is there data around this about any possible changes in performance of
> > either file writes/reads/deletes, or general memory utilization during
> > writes/reads/deletes?
> > 
> > Specifically, it takes n long to delete x number of files, or takes n
> > long to create x number of directories, or takes n long to read x
> number
> > of files or x number of megs into memory, etc?
> > 
> > The reason I ask is that news and mail servers seem to be the most
> > common file-corruption witnesses, could this help them?
> > 
> > 
> 
> The only thing this really does is fit more inodes in a page, and hence
> make xfs use less memory to operate. Using less memory will help some
> loads.
> 
> Steve
> 
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Austin Gonyou
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Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-698-7250
email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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