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prometheanfire / gentoo-cloud-prep

Preparation for gentoo instances on an OpenStack cloud, including stage4 prep
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change default block size to 8k #16

Closed prometheanfire closed 9 years ago

prometheanfire commented 9 years ago

better for usage over iscsi I think (and specifically zvols)

prometheanfire commented 9 years ago

mkfs.ext4 -b 8192 /dev/sda3

hartwork commented 9 years ago

May I ask why?

prometheanfire commented 9 years ago

more efficient use of networking, more efficient use of solid state drives.

prometheanfire commented 9 years ago

might actually be better to switch to xfs...

hartwork commented 9 years ago

Why?

prometheanfire commented 9 years ago

just a guess, but I think the way that xfs works would be better for iscsi (and better in general, as it's generally better then ext4), I need to research some of the drawbacks (specifically the safety aspects).

prometheanfire commented 9 years ago

well, ext4 is faster 1.4 times faster in fact, closing :D