Re: XFS, RAID-5, 3ware

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:46:13PM -0400, Gaspar Bakos wrote:

> Here you refer to the kernel page-size?

yes

> > 512-bytes is the minimum you can get away with to spread inodes out
> > evenly over a volume larger than 2TB
>
> Ok, I see.

i should qualify that though that for >4TB you will need larger inodes
again but at that point i think using a 32-bit CPU won't be very
common

> What tests do you think of?

whatever matches you usage pattern, this is why i mentioned that the
strip-size doesn't necessarily have some *magic* value --- it will
vary somewhat depending on what your writes look like