Re: mysterious dbench results

[Thomas Graichen <news-innominate.list.sgi.xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have been out for a while, or I would have posted something on this earlier.
> The default mkfs options for xfs are not optimal for heavy I/O load, they are
> somewhat historical and should probably be changed.

> On mkfs try some options like this:

> mkfs -t xfs -f -l size=32768b /dev/xxx

just out of couriosity: would this work after fs creation time
with the xfs_growfs -L option (which does not seem to work so
far) - or only together with extending the size of the under-
lying device?

t

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