Am Freitag, 14. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner:
> On 9/14/2012 7:57 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 14. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner:
> >> Thus my advice to you is:
> >> 
> >> Do not use LVM.  Directly format the RAID10 device using the
> >> mkfs.xfs defaults.  mkfs.xfs will read the md configuration and
> >> automatically align the filesystem to the stripe width.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Just for completeness:
> > 
> >
> > It is possible to manually align XFS via mkfs.xfs / mount options.
> > But  then thats an extra step thats unnecessary when creating XFS
> > directly on MD.
> 
> And not optimal for XFS beginners.  But the main reason for avoiding
> LVM is that LVM creates a "slice and dice" mentality among its users,
> and many become too liberal with the carving knife, ending up with a
> filesystem made of sometimes a dozen LVM slivers.  Then XFS
> performance suffers due to the resulting inode/extent/free space
> layout.

Agreed.

I have seen VMs with seperate /usr and minimal / and mis-estimated sizing. 
There was perfectly enough place in the VMDK, but just in the wrong 
partition. I fixed it back then by adding another VMDK file. (So even with 
partitions I found those setups.)

Something else is to split up /var/log or /var.

But then we are talking about user and not system data here anyway.

I have always recommended to leave at least 10-15% free, but from a 
discussion on XFS mailinglist where you took part, I learned that 
depending on use case for large volumes even more free space might be 
necessary for performant long term operation.

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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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