Yeah..sorry I noticed it after reading again. :(
On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 16:08, Mike Eldridge wrote:
> i feel like a broken record. :)
>
> it's an escalade 7850 ata raid card.
>
> -mike
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 03:45:23PM -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > What card is it, BTW?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 15:41, Mike Eldridge wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 03:19:05PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> > > > Well, Duh! I should have seen that first time around, I get into
> the
> > > > habit of reading my email too fast!
> > > >
> > > > We may be able to fix some things, if we can remake the
> filesystem.
> > > > First you need to know the stripe unit of your raid - we can feed
> > > > this into XFS to make it do stripe aligned allocations. This has
> > > > to be done by hand on linux. Take a look at the mkfs.xfs man page
> > > > and the section on sunit and swidth options. Probably bump your
> log
> > > size
> > > > up from the default somewhat, not sure how it ended up as 1839
> > > > that is scary.
> > >
> > > RAID5 on this card offers only a 64K stripe size. however, i will
> be
> > > recreating the array as RAID1 or RAID10, which offers stripe sizes
> from
> > > 64K to 1MB. i'm not sure which is the best way to go. i think that
> the
> > > best thing to do, considering additonal space requirements might be
> > > neccessary, is to go with multiple RAID1 arrays and let LVM do the
> > > striping. any caveats here?
> > >
> > > this particular box is a mail server and it handles a lot of i/o
> with
> > > pretty small files (< 64K). i want to optimize for performance.
> > > unfortunately, this is also my *first* foray into xfs/lvm/raid, so i
> > > want to make sure i have as much information as possible before i
> carve
> > > it all in stone.
> > >
> > > i need to go read some more about LVM...
> > >
> > > as for the log, yeah, just over 7MB, i have no idea either. info i
> have
> > > read suggests a 32MB log, but i'd like to use something bigger,
> perhaps
> > > 128MB. any caveats to using a log of this size?
> > >
> > > > You still have not said which kernel version you are running
> beyond
> > > 2.4,
> > > > unless I speed read over that too.
> > >
> > > i did in a previous email. :)
> > >
> > > it's vanilla 2.4.18 with the xfs-1.1 release patches applied.
> > >
> > > -mike
> > >
> > >
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