On 09/11/03 20:22, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
I've been using XFS for a while now on Linux, but never on a filesystem
larger than about 60GB or so. Tomorrow I need to configure a disk array
for a client with a single XFS filesystem. The total size of the
filesystem will be approximately 300GB, and it needs to be able hold
1.5-2.0 million files at any one time. There are no database work loads
or transaction processing workloads, it's just a big fat file server for
their network. They store a wide range of file sizes, but at least 50%
of the files will be less than 32KB in size. The filesystem will be
shared out using Samba 3.0, and there will be limited usage of extended
attributes and ACLs through Samba (but probably no more than a couple
thousand files, unless Samba decides to put extended attributes on
things I'm not aware of yet).
The server is running kernel 2.6.0-test5. Anyone have any suggestions on
configuring the filesystem? I hesitate to just use mkfs.xfs defaults for
something this large, and I certainly don't want them to run out of
space for new files/directories when the system is not full.
I'd have to wonder why you're using an unstable kernel on a production
server?
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