Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:05:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum in 4.x poor performer? Message-ID: <20050212135932.N20102@familysquires.net> In-Reply-To: <20050209161917.Q94338@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20050208231208.B94338@ganymede.hub.org> <20050208234602.M94338@ganymede.hub.org> <20050209161917.Q94338@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > I read that somewhere, but then every example shows 256k as being the strip > size :( Now, with a 5 drives RAID5 array (which I'll be moving that server > to over the next couple of weeks), 256k isn't an issue? or is there > something better i should set it to? > The 4.10 man 8 vinum page shows 512K in the example, but later on it says that if cylinder groups are 32MB in size you should avoid a power of 2 which will place all superblocks and inodes on the same subdisk and that an odd number (479kB is the example) should be chosen. Mike Squires
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