Re: [CentOS-docs] Possible typo in "HowTos/Disk_Optimization"

2009-05-29 Thread S.Tindall
On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 10:09 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Alan Bartlett wrote: > ... > > Pedantically and ignoring the RAID aspect, just looking at the > > equations scientifically, I would say that only the first one is wrong > > as (64K / 4K) = 16, not 16K. It should be expressed as (64 / 4)K =

Re: [CentOS-docs] Possible typo in "HowTos/Disk_Optimization"

2009-05-29 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 29/05/2009, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Phil Schaffner > wrote: > > > Alan Bartlett wrote: > > >> Perhaps the original author would care to comment and adjust where > necessary? > >> > >> Alan. > > > > but the conclusion is still that the original > > author nee

Re: [CentOS-docs] Possible typo in "HowTos/Disk_Optimization"

2009-05-29 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:09 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Alan Bartlett wrote: >> Perhaps the original author would care to comment and adjust where necessary? >> >> Alan. > but the conclusion is still that the original > author needs to respond, or failing that somebody else needs to fix the >

Re: [CentOS-docs] Possible typo in "HowTos/Disk_Optimization"

2009-05-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
Alan Bartlett wrote: ... > Pedantically and ignoring the RAID aspect, just looking at the > equations scientifically, I would say that only the first one is wrong > as (64K / 4K) = 16, not 16K. It should be expressed as (64 / 4)K = > 16K. > > The other two lines do read correctly but, in the spiri

Re: [CentOS-docs] Possible typo in "HowTos/Disk_Optimization"

2009-05-29 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 29/05/2009, Timothy Lee wrote: > > Dear all, > > In "HowTos/Disk_Optimization", the calculated value of stride size and > stripe width appears to have the "K" suffix incorrectly appended to them. > Eg: > > > (64K/4K) = 16K > (3*16K) = 48K > > (16K+16K) = 32K The values provided on the mkfs.ex

[CentOS-docs] Possible typo in "HowTos/Disk_Optimization"

2009-05-29 Thread Timothy Lee
Dear all, In "HowTos/Disk_Optimization", the calculated value of stride size and stripe width appears to have the "K" suffix incorrectly appended to them. Eg: * (64K/4K) = 16K * (3*16K) = 48K * (16K+16K) = 32K The values provided on the mkfs.ext3 command line however, do drop the