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Changing XFS sunit and swidth parameters on RAID 5

Hi all,

I would like to ask something regarding XFS and RAID 5:

I've built raid 5 from 4 1TB devices using 256KB chunk size.
I wanted to tweak XFS on it a little so I formatted it with

Code:

mkfs.xfs -f -L DATA -l internal,size=128m -d agcount=30,su=256k,sw=3 /dev/md0

Problem is that output shows:

Code:

eta-data=/dev/md0              isize=256    agcount=30, agsize=24419072 blks

        =                      sectsz=4096  attr=2

data    =                      bsize=4096  blocks=732571776, imaxpct=5

        =                      sunit=64    swidth=192 blks

naming  =version 2              bsize=4096  ascii-ci=0

log      =internal log          bsize=4096  blocks=32768, version=2

        =                      sectsz=4096  sunit=1 blks, lazy-count=0

realtime =none                  extsz=786432 blocks=0, rtextents=0

That's not exactly sunit that I wanted (should be 512 and swidth 1536).
Even if I try to mount it with these options set to proper numbers, xfs_info still provides same output.

Any ideas or suggestions why this happens?

Regards,

Marek

Solved:

In reference to http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2003-04/msg00145.html

where it is stated that:

Quote:

data = bsize=4096 blocks=84286944,
imaxpct=25
= sunit=16 swidth=48 blks,
unwritten=0

since it apparently displays the "sunit" and "swidth" values in terms of
XFS blocks, which are 4096 bytes each....

That means that my 64*4096 is my 256k and swidth 192*4096/512 is my 1536.

Anyway, formatting without parameters resulted in the same numbers because xfs' built-in optimization for software raids.