Re: Log file size?

[Ric Tibbetts <ric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> On Thu, 31 May 2001 at 2:21pm, C. J. Keist wrote
>
>
> > Is there a standard formula on how to determine what log file size for
> > xfs on a given file system size?
> > I'll be looking a creating a 500Gb size xfs file system.
> I asked the same question back in March (for a 560GB hardware IDE-SCSI
> RAID), and Steve Lord suggested 16384b or 32768b.  There was mention of
> adding heuristics to mfks.xfs for this at some point, but I don't recall
> seeing any TAKEs for that...
>
> Steve also suggested mounting with -o logbufs=8 if you expect heavy
> traffic.

Whoa!
Did I miss something BIG here? I thought that the log was created 
automatically when you create the filesystem. Is that not true?
I have a machine at home purring away on LVM/XFS, and I never manually 
created a log file.

Can someone shed some more lite on this?

Ric