OS Upgrade Considerations For XFS Volume

[Stan Hoeppner]

On 11/27/2014 08:29 AM, Bharathiraja P wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> We recently upgraded our database system from OpenSuSE-11.4 to OpenSuSE-13.1
> 
> Post the upgrade we are noticing load spikes on our database system.
> 
> OpenSuSE 11.4 uses kernel-2.6.37 and OpenSuSE-13.1 uses kernel-3.11.10
> 
> There seems to be some changes related to XFS in new kernel and I'm
> getting this error when I run xfs_logprint

The two major XFS defaults changes here are:

1.  Delayed logging
2.  inode64 allocator

Read about each.  They should not be impacting performance of a DB
workload nor system load.

Stan