linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC] store RAID stride in superblock

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Date:	Fri, 11 May 2007 21:21:24 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] store RAID stride in superblock

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> It is possible to specify the RAID stride to mke2fs allow it to optimize
> the layout of the bitmaps.  With the new mballoc it is also possible to
> tell it via a mount option to do large allocations aligned on the RAID
> stride (by default it aligns on 1MB boundaries from the start of the LUN).
> 
> What would be rather convenient is to store the RAID stride value in the
> superblock.  That would spare a lot of hassle on the part of the admin
> to tune the filesystem optimally for the underlying storage.  There is
> also a library used in the XFS tools that knows how to probe various
> kinds of block devices (e.g. MD RAID, LVM/DM, etc) to get their storage
> layout that would avoid the need for the user to specify anything.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?

I think it sounds great.  I think ext4 would benefit greatly from 
knowing a bit more about the underlying device geometry & allocating 
accordingly...

-Eric

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