Re: Speeding up XFS

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:33:00AM -0600, Bruce Guenter wrote:

> >    There is an ugly hack we put in to kee inode numbers < 2**32.
> >    This changes inode and data placement (inodes are kept in the
> >    lower AGs, user data is spread around in the upper AGs) and
> >    brings on the full-filesystem case earlier.  I think thats what
> >    you hit.

> Is there any way to avoid this situation?

I don't think you are seeing that.

You can avoid it by using fs' under 1TB or making your inodes larger
(buys you a little).  Or use a 64-bit CPU.