Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
>>Did you use default mkfs parameters on xfs? Try upping the log size:
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>> mkfs -t xfs -f -l size=32768b .....
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>>Also try
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>> mount -o logbufs=8 ....
>>The multiple test dirs will make xfs spread out all over the disk,
>>not sure how ext3 will place them. Probably seek heaven, what
>>does the disk sound like on ext3, it chatters a lot for xfs.
>>
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>Big difference
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>With your mkfs settings and mount options, the same synctest finishes in
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>real 97.64 user 2.20 sys 30.19
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>That's close to a 10x difference from the original numbers
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Thats somewhat of a relief, we should be able to get closer to ext3 than
that,
but at least it puts us in the same ballpark.
>Can't tell you about disk noise now, doing the test remotely. I'll try
>to listen in on Monday
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That's OK, if our 2 week old lets me I might be able to try ext3 myself,
just a
matter of being able to get to the basement ;-)
Steve
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