Optimal XFS formatting options?

[Emmanuel Florac]

Le Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:19:55 +0100
Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie at is.it-management.at> écrivait:

> - expand array by factors of two. So if you have 10 data drives, add
> 10 data drives. But that creates other problems (probability of
> single drive failure + time to recover a single broken disk)

From my experience 20 drives is OK for RAID-6. And rebuild time doesn't
change much with array size, anyway.

Misaligned partitions, on the other hand, can easily halve array
throughput from my own measurements.

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