[Gluster-users] mkfs.xfs warning advice needed

[Brian Foster]

On 12/04/2013 11:34 AM, Ellison, Bob wrote:
> A little off topic, but thought someone here would know off the top of their head...
> 
> I'm setting up a new glusterfs system. I have a hardware raid6 configured as 10+2 with a 256K chunk size (so the partition being seen in Redhat is a single LUN). I get a warning when I initialize it with XFS:
> 
> [root at lab-ads1 ~]#  mkfs.xfs -f -isize=512 -d su=256k,sw=10 /dev/mapper/c0
> mkfs.xfs: Specified data stripe width 5120 is not the same as the volume stripe width 2048
> 

You could check out 'blkid -i /dev/mapper/c0' to see what
characteristics the dm device reports (and/or for the underlying block
device, if accessible) and whether it corresponds to how the volume has
been configured. Assuming a recent enough version, mkfs.xfs correlates
minimum I/O size to stripe unit and optimal I/O size to stripe width.

I'm not sure what the device mapper device represents here, but you'll
probably want to make sure it is aligned as well.

Brian

> The mkfs seems to work fine (and hence why I characterize the message as a warning).
> 
> I've searched around and see this type of message all over the place. But there's never a hint if this is an expected message for such a configuration which can be safely ignored or if I'm severely misinterpreting the man page and performance will suffer as these partitions fill up with data.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Bob
> 
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