Re: [patch] improve stripe_cache_size documentation

2007-12-30 Thread Thiemo Nagel
stripe_cache_size (currently raid5 only) As far as I have understood, it applies to raid6, too. Kind regards, Thiemo Nagel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

AS/CFQ/DEADLINE/NOOP on Linux SW RAID?

2007-12-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
When setting the scheduler, is it possible to set it on /dev/mdX or is it only possible to set it on the underlying devices which compose the sw raid device? /dev/sda /dev/sdb and does that really affect how the data is accessed by specifying the underlying device and not mdX? Justin. - To

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 reproducible raid5 hang

2007-12-30 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Dan Williams wrote: On Dec 29, 2007 1:58 PM, dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Dan Williams wrote: On Dec 29, 2007 9:48 AM, dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm bummer, i'm doing another test (rsync 3.5M inodes from another box) on

Re: [patch] improve stripe_cache_size documentation

2007-12-30 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Thiemo Nagel wrote: stripe_cache_size (currently raid5 only) As far as I have understood, it applies to raid6, too. good point... and raid4. here's an updated patch. -dean Signed-off-by: dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux/Documentation/md.txt

Re: [patch] improve stripe_cache_size documentation

2007-12-30 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, dean gaudet wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Thiemo Nagel wrote: stripe_cache_size (currently raid5 only) As far as I have understood, it applies to raid6, too. good point... and raid4. here's an updated patch. and once again with a typo fix. oops. -dean

Re: New XFS benchmarks using David Chinner's recommendations for XFS-based optimizations.

2007-12-30 Thread Raz
what is nobarrier ? On 12/31/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave's original e-mail: # mkfs.xfs -f -l lazy-count=1,version=2,size=128m -i attr=2 -d agcount=4 dev # mount -o logbsize=256k dev mtpt And if you don't care about filsystem corruption on power loss: # mount -o

Re: New XFS benchmarks using David Chinner's recommendations for XFS-based optimizations.

2007-12-30 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: what is nobarrier ? ... # mount -o logbsize=256k,nobarrier dev mtpt See http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html Q: How can I address the problem with the write cache? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang

Re: New XFS benchmarks using David Chinner's recommendations for XFS-based optimizations.

2007-12-30 Thread Richard Scobie
Justin Piszcz wrote: Why does mdadm still use 64k for the default chunk size? Probably because this is the best balance for average file sizes, which are smaller than you seem to be testing with? Regards, Richard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-raid in the