Re: what mkfs.xfs options to use with dealing with many small files.

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 11:24, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 11:13, Steve Lord wrote:
> 
> > > mkfs.xfs -f -b size=2048k -d agcount=16 /dev/md0
> > 
> >  -b size specifies the basic block size of the filesystem, it is
> >   in bytes, I do not think 2048k is going to work. Why choose 2K?
> >   If you are going to switch from the default of 512 then the best
> >   bet is 4096.
> 
> Not quite, -b is the filesystem block size, not the device sector size,
> right?  4k default, page-sized max, 512 minimum.

Sorry, I was thinking about -s, not -b.

Steve

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