Eric,
I can't find any rotorstep within my xfs kernel codebase. Any idea how I
can get this in?
I'm running on a 32 bit machine that's why I can't use idnode64 right?
My machine currently shows me isize=256.
Am I right that mkfs -t xfs -i size=512 would double the inode size?
I'll give this a try tomorrow then.
Thanks
Thomas
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Sandeen [mailto:sandeen@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 5:15 PM
To: Bub Thomas
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx; Braehler Uwe; Lindenkreuz Morris; Waldschmidt
Stefan
Subject: Re: Every new file goes into a new ag
If you have a "rotorstep" systune in your xfs codebase you might play
with that; otherwise try making the size of your inode bigger (at mkfs
time) so that you don't get into inode32 mode. (or, if you're on a
64-bit machine, mount with the "inode64" option to make 64-bit inodes).
for large filesystems, xfs must ensure that inode numbers don't go over
32 bits. To do that, inodes are allocated in the lower part of the
fileysstem, and files are allocated round-robin through the AGs.
rotorstep changes that round-robin behavior to switch to a new AG every
(X) new files, instead of every (1) new file.
If you can get out of inode32 mode by either mounting with 64-bit inodes
on a 64-bit machine, or making the inode size larger (affects the inode
numbering scheme) then files created in a single directory will
generally be allocated in the same AG.
-Eric
Bub Thomas wrote:
> Hi there,
> I just got XFS running under RedHat EL 3.0.
> Since I need high bandwidth for media playout, where in our case each
> and every frame of a film image sequence is a new file, I need file
> sequences being physically close to each other.
> I'm struggling with the fact that consecutive files on a new
filesystem
> don't get consecutive inode numbers. It seems that every new file ends
> up in a new ag.
> Thus the read performance for consecutive files is very poor
> I tried it with two different kernels which are
> 2.4.21-27.0.2.EL.sgi9.i386 and 2.4.21-15.0.4.EL.sgi3.i38. with both
the
> effect is the same.
> My filesystem is located on a JBOD array on 14 FC-2 disks with less
then
> 2 TByte and the kernel config CONFIG_LBD not set.
> The volume on the JBOD I use is made with LVM.
> Any help welcome.
> Thomas Bub
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