On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 13:57 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 05:07:46PM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> >> To improve metadata performance, you have many options with XFS (which
> >> ones are useful depends on the type of metadata workload) - you can try
> >> a v2 format log, and mount with "-o logbsize=256k", try increasing the
> >> directory block size (e.g. mkfs.xfs -nsize=16k, etc), and also the log
> >> size (mkfs.xfs -lsize=XXXXXXb).
> >
> > Okay, these suggestions are one too often now. v2 log and large logs/log
> > buffers are the almost universal suggestions, and we really need to make
> > these defaults. XFS is already the laughing stock of the Linux community
> > due to it's absurdely bad default settings.
>
> Agreed on reevaluating the defaults, Christoph!
>
> barrier seems to hurt badly on xfs, too. Note: barrier is off by
> default on ext[34], so if you want apples to apples there, you need to
> change one or the other filesystem's mount options. If your write cache
> is safe (battery backed?) you may as well turn barriers off. I'm not
> sure offhand who will react more poorly to an evaporating write cache
> (with no barriers), ext4 or xfs...
I didn't compare the safety of the three filesystems, but I did have
disk caches disabled and only battery-backed caches enabled. Do you
need barriers without volatile caches?
Most people benchmark ext3 with data=writeback which is unsafe. I used
ordered (the default).
I think if you look at all the features, zfs is theoretically the most
safe filesystem. But in practice, who knows?
-jwb
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