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sunit, swidth question - mkfs.xfs tuning

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Subject: sunit, swidth question - mkfs.xfs tuning
From: Joshua Schmidlkofer <joshua@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:23:20 -0800
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Howdy,
  WOO HOOO!! On 2.4 inclusion, BTW. (good going!)

An old e-mail from Christian Guggenberger recommends swidth be (n-1)
disks for RAID5.  Is that correct?  I have a 66GB volume so I was
looking at:

Mylex AcceleRAID 170, 6 disks in a RAID 5. (4GB system memory)

mkfs.xfs -d su=64k,sw=5 -l size=32m,sunit=64k -L "data"  /dev/...


Is this correct?  Is 32mb a good journal size? This is a mail server,
lots of small files, do I need to optimize the inode options?  I don't
quite understand the full impact of performance here.

thanks,
  Joshua




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