stride (fwd)
Andreas Dilger
adilger at sun.com
Wed Jun 25 08:36:37 UTC 2008
On Jun 24, 2008 08:30 -0400, Richard Jackson wrote:
> If this is not the case then I suggest adding something similar to Ted's
> or Andreas' descriptions to replace the current stride mke2fs man page.
>
> If nothing else change from
>
> stride=<stripe-size>
> Configure the filesystem for a RAID array with
> <stripe-size> filesystem blocks per stripe.
>
> to
>
> stride=<stride-size>
>
> The number of filesystem blocks on a single disk. The purpose
> is to spread the filesystem metadata across the disks. For
> example, if the RAID chunk/segment size is 64KB and the
> filesystem block size is 4KB, then the stride size is 16
> (64KB/4KB).
The patch to add the "stride" and "stripe-size" options to mke2fs and
mke2fs(8) man pages were already included upstream for 1.40.7 or earlier.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
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