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[Eric Sandeen]

On 11/11/13, 12:23 PM, Bernd Schubert wrote:

> One of my colleagues benchmarked this on one of our fast systems and another 
> colleague current needs this system for other tests, so I don't have the 
> exact parameters. However, it was for sure formated with options like these:
> 
> mkfs.xfs -d su=256k,sw=10 -l version=2,su=256k -isize=512 /dev/sdX
> 
> and mounted with these options:
> 
> mount -onoatime,nodiratime,largeio,inode64,swalloc,allocsize=131072k,nobarrier /dev/sdX <mountpoint>

With all due respect, this is excessive knob-twiddling.  Slow down.  ;)

* V2 logs are default already, so -l version=2 is redundant.
* noatime implies nodiratime, so specifying both is redundant.
* "largeio" only changes the st_blksize value reported (from default page size to, in your case, the total stripe width).  Does that actually affect your application behavior?

Backing up, what kernel & what userspace versions are you testing?

-Eric