On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 09:09, Paul Schutte wrote:
> Is there a good reason for having the logsize=1200b by default ?
>
> I have found that it almost alway causes slowdown under heavy I/O.
>
> Can't we make it 8192b (32Mb) by default.
> 27968 kb is not much to sacrifice.
> It will help people that have no experience with XFS to go fast out of the
> box.
>
> Paul
>
If you are putting xfs on a disk and not using it for I/O intensive
operations, then a smaller log is all you need. There is a cost
associated with a larger log - longer mount times even when the
filesystem was cleanly unmounted.
The default size does grow with larger filesystems, but I think they
need to be pretty big before that kicks in. The sizing is more an Irix
thing than a linux one - I think it does not kick in until 1 Tbyte.
Steve
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