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Date:      Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:09:39 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: heavy NFS writes lead to corrup summary in superblock
Message-ID:  <44898F33.3000304@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <200606091053.k59ArYQs029626@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <200606091053.k59ArYQs029626@lurza.secnetix.de>

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Oliver Fromme wrote:

> Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
>  > The FS is intended for very few very large files and was created 
>  > with "newfs -b 65536 -O1" (no softupdates).
> 
> Did you also increase the fragment size (-f option)?
> The default is 2048 bytes, and I wouldn't expect a b/f
> ratio of 32:1 to work very well.  In fact I'm surprised
> that you have so little problems.  :-)
> 

Oh shoot, I didn't even notice this part of his posting.
Yes, anything more than an 8:1 ratio simply will not work.
I don't recall if newfs is smart enough to automatically
scale the frag size when only the block size is set, but
if it's not then this is definitely a problem.

Scott




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