I just found that my questions from Monday were not solved, but this is interesting, so I want to warm it up again. On Montag, 6. September 2010 Michael Monnerie wrote: I looked into man mkfs now, which brings up these questions: On Sonntag, 5. September 2010 Dave Chinner wrote: > - relatime,logbufs=8,attr=2,barrier are all defaults. Why isn't logbsize=256k default, when it's suggested most of the time anyway? On machines with 32MiB or more 32k is the default, but most machines these days have multi-gigabytes of RAM, so at least for RAM>1GiB that could be made default. > - largeio only affects stat(2) output if you have > sunit/swidth set - unlikely on a laptop drive, and has > no effect on unlink performance. > - swalloc only affects allocation if sunit/swidth are set > and has no effect on unlink performance. Hm, it seems I don't understand that. I tried now on different servers, using stat -f /disks/db --format '%s %S' 4096 4096 That filesystems were all created with su=64k,swidth=(values 4-8 depending on RAID). So I retried specifying directly in the mount options: sunit=128,swidth=512 and it still reports "4096" for %s - or is %s not the value I should look for? Some of the filesystems even have allocsize= specified, still always 4096 is given back. Where is my problem? And while I am at it: Why does "mount" not provide the su=/sw= options that we can use to create a filesystem? Would make life easier, as it's much easier to read su=64k,sw=7 than sunit=128,swidth=896. When I defined su/sw on mkfs, is it enough, or would I always have to specify sunit/swidth with every mount too? -- mit freundlichen Grüssen, Michael Monnerie, Ing. BSc it-management Internet Services http://proteger.at [gesprochen: Prot-e-schee] Tel: 0660 / 415 65 31 ****** Aktuelles Radiointerview! ****** http://www.it-podcast.at/aktuelle-sendung.html // Wir haben im Moment zwei Häuser zu verkaufen: // http://zmi.at/langegg/ // http://zmi.at/haus2009/