I just did this: mkfs.ocfs2 -v -L ocfs2mail -N 8 -T mail /dev/sdb1 The tools happen to choose "-b 4096 -C 4096" for you at that point.
Brian Sérgio Surkamp <ser...@gruposinternet.com.br> 2009-08-12 12:03: > Em Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:05:44 +0800 > "Thomas G. Lau" <thomas....@ntt.com.hk> escreveu: > > > Dear all, > > > > Anyone using OCFS2 on email storage system ? (postfix/qmail). > > Wondering if any of you suffer any problem?! Also, what parameter did > > you tune for email system only? thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ocfs2-users mailing list > > Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users > > Hello Thomas, > > We are using as general propose shared filesystem (email, shared files, > some web related files, etc...) and the only drawback from a local > filesystem is that it's a bit slower due to cluster stack. > > About the tuning we have reduced the block size and pre-allocated size > to reduce the on-disk size, since email messages usually are tiny files > (lets say about 8K per message). > > Our setup: > > mkfs.ocfs2 -b 4096 -C 4096 -N 4 /dev/sd<X> > > If you plan to use it for a large number of accounts, keep your eye on > the 32000 sub-directories limitation. > > Regards, > -- > .:''''':. > .:' ` Sérgio Surkamp | Gerente de Rede > :: ........ ser...@gruposinternet.com.br > `:. .:' > `:, ,.:' *Grupos Internet S.A.* > `: :' R. Lauro Linhares, 2123 Torre B - Sala 201 > : : Trindade - Florianópolis - SC > :.' > :: +55 48 3234-4109 > : > ' http://www.gruposinternet.com.br > > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs2-users mailing list > Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users