Gfs2 vs xfs vs ext4


 
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Old 11-19-2009
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Originally Posted by king_hippo
1. What type of storage are you using.
Penguin x8dtn, 24 1tb disks
Can find anything about this setup. Do you have specs/a link ?

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2. What type of disks
sata
Definitely not optimal for the amount of files or the access patterns you describe.

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3. If using a controller based array, what you optimized for sequential or random operation.
Sounds like it should be random optimized, but depends on the array or RAID controller and its capabilities whether or not this a selectable.

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4. Will you mirror on-host or using hardware RAID
controller based raid 10. six disks per raid set

Seems like a reasonable choice.


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4. What is your storage block size.
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64k
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5. What is the average size of your writes
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dunno, guess is a few meg. No more than 16m. These are email attachments
That is the size of the objects not the size of the writes. iostats for the file systems would be good here.

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6. What is the breakdown of reads/writes
not sure
This might be essential information, depends on the pattern, but caching correctly might improve performance drastically.

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9. How many files per directory do you have ( files includes sub-directories) in the largest directory.
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millions
This is in all probability your main bottleneck, more file systems or directories with fewer files could improve this.
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Old 11-19-2009
I was told they did have it turned on. Basically at the time we started this layout we were the largest email system in the world (still are I think). The only we we had to handle the i/o load we were getting was small files and basically deep random directories. reiser was the only file system that could handle it. Red Hat assigned about 5 engineers to work with us and couldn't get ext close. They built us a custom gf2 after numerous attempts. It is now in the public release, I forget which ver.
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Old 11-20-2009
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Originally Posted by king_hippo
I was told they did have it turned on.
We've been screaming at you to tune it for days... If it was tuned in the first place, you might have said so! We're only trying to help you here.

If ext3 isn't fast enough for you, I don't think ext4 is going to be either. But performance in whatever filesystem you choose could be improved a lot by not having millions of files in one directory.
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Old 11-21-2009
You may want to think about some sort of higher end LVM/filesystem configuration.

Simply changing filesystems without putting extra intelligence and disk I/O bandwidth between the OS and directory access is not going to help much.
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Old 11-23-2009
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
You may want to think about some sort of higher end LVM/filesystem configuration.

Simply changing filesystems without putting extra intelligence and disk I/O bandwidth between the OS and directory access is not going to help much.
I don't think the OP has posted any hard numbers on the I/O performance he is getting, nor exact specifics of his RAID setup (connection type, RAID blocksize, etc.) Without all that it's hard to solve his problem.
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Old 11-30-2009
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
You may want to think about some sort of higher end LVM/filesystem configuration.

Simply changing filesystems without putting extra intelligence and disk I/O bandwidth between the OS and directory access is not going to help much.
Can you point me to a resource that I can read more about high level filesystem config or putting extra intelligence and disk I/O bandwidth between the OS and directory access?
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