Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:35:47 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing contigiously to UFS2? Message-ID: <fd0aaj$poh$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <46F3A64C.4090507@fluffles.net> References: <46F3A64C.4090507@fluffles.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig32BE1CB392C24DEE913EB202 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Fluffles wrote: > Even worse: data is being stored at weird locations, so that my energy = > efficient NAS project becomes crippled. Even with the first 400GB of=20 > data, it's storing that on the first 4 disks in my concat configuration= ,=20 > In the past when testing geom_raid5 I've tried to tune newfs parameters= =20 > so that it would write contiguously but still there were regular 2-phas= e=20 > writes which mean data was not written contiguously. I really dislike=20 > this behavior. I agree, this is my least favorite aspect of UFS (maybe together with=20 nonimplementation of extents), for various reasons. I feel it's time to=20 start heavy lobbying for finishing FreeBSD's implementations of XFS and=20 raiserfs :) (ZFS is not the ultimate solution: 1) replacing UFS monoculture with ZFS = monoculture will sooner or later yield problems, and 2) sometimes a=20 "dumb" unix filesystem is preferred to the "smart" ZFS). --------------enig32BE1CB392C24DEE913EB202 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG86yTldnAQVacBcgRA6qHAJ9q44TYMr5HghYLvGLddFNJXoRljgCeNONU cMqIOf4ZoHWLPQEGl2vvSCA= =dlel -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig32BE1CB392C24DEE913EB202--
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