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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 13:57:06 -0000 (GMT)
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Hello, been reading documents but still not sure what are best option to
use when creating xfs on my raid system. Raid card details below.


I have 2 raid 1 arrays which will have xfs partitions:

Array 1 55gb with 1 40gb xfs partition for /home
Array set as stripe 64kb block 512 bytes


Array 2 645gb 1 xfs partition using all space for file storage
Array set as stripe 128kb block 512 bytes


I have been looking at docs and come with following to create FS on 645gb
xfs partition.

mkfs.xfs -f -d  agcount=42 -l size=64m /dev/sde5


The default agcount= was 32 but am not 100% sure how to work this out for
correct number?


I would mount with following options:

mount -o logbufs=8,noatime,nodiratime


The other setting am not sure how to get right is this bit from docs: "XFS
allows you to select the stripe unit for a RAID device or stripe volume."


Now i know i need to set  -d su= -d sw=  but best to work this out for my
arrays?


The 645gb array/partition will be used for files 3mb to 250mb with most
being about 20/30mb


Raid is Areca 1210 raid controller:

Adapter Architecture


        ARC-1210 uses IntelR IOP332 I/O processor. ARC-1220/1230/1260 uses 
IntelR
IOP333 I/O processor
                PCI-Express X8 bus
                256MB on-board DDR333 SDRAM with ECC protection(4/8-port)
                One SODIMM socket with default 256MB of DDR333 SDRAM with ECC
protection, Upgrade to 1GB. An ECC or non-ECC SDRAM module using X8 or
X16 chip organization (12/16/24-port)
                Write-through or write-back cache








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