Re: file system and raid performance

Gregory S. Youngblood wrote:
>> From: Mark Kirkwood [mailto:markir@paradise.net.nz]
>> Mark Wong wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Gregory S. Youngblood
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>> <greg@tcscs.com> wrote:
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>>>> I recently ran some tests on Ubuntu Hardy Server (Linux) comparing
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>> JFS, XFS,
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>>>> and ZFS+FUSE. It was all 32-bit and on old hardware, plus I only
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>> used
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>>>> bonnie++, so the numbers are really only useful for my hardware.
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>>>> What parameters were used to create the XFS partition in these
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>> tests? And,
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>>>> what options were used to mount the file system? Was the kernel 32-
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>> bit or
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>>>> 64-bit? Given what I've seen with some of the XFS options (like
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>> lazy-count),
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>>>> I am wondering about the options used in these tests.
>>>>
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>>> The default (no arguments specified) parameters were used to create
>>> the XFS partitions.  Mount options specified are described in the
>>> table.  This was a 64-bit OS.
>>>
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>> I think it is a good idea to match the raid stripe size and give some
>> indication of how many disks are in the array. E.g:
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>> For a 4 disk system with 256K stripe size I used:
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>>  $ mkfs.xfs -d su=256k,sw=2 /dev/mdx
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>> which performed about 2-3 times quicker than the default (I did try
>> sw=4
>> as well, but didn't notice any difference compared to sw=4).
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> [Greg says] 
> I thought that xfs picked up those details when using md and a soft-raid
> configuration. 
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You are right, it does (I may be recalling performance from my other 
machine that has a 3Ware card - this was a couple of years ago...) 
Anyway, I'm thinking for the Hardware raid tests they may need to be 
specified.

Cheers

Mark