[Gluster-users] Recommended filesystem for GlusterFS bricks.

[Kurian Thayil]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:12:25 -0400 (EDT)
Ben Turner <bturner at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Kurian Thayil" <kurian at gnuhack.com>
> > To: "Bobby Jacob" <bobby.jacob at alshaya.com>
> > Cc: gluster-users at gluster.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 10:08:04 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] Recommended filesystem for GlusterFS
> > bricks.
> > 
> > On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 13:52:14 +0000
> > Bobby Jacob <bobby.jacob at alshaya.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Which is the recommended filesystem to be used for the bricks in
> > > glusterFS. ?? XFS/EXT3/EXT4 etc .????
> > > 
> > > Thanks & Regards,
> > > 
> > > Bobby Jacob
> > > Senior Technical Systems Engineer | eGroup
> > > P SAVE TREES. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really
> > > need to.
> > > 
> > 
> > XFS is recommended for bricks.
> 
> Be sure to set the inode size to 512 to allow enough room for
> glusterfs's xattrs:
> 
> mkfs.xfs -i size=512 <my block device>
> 
> -b
>  
> > Regards,
> > K.
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Hmm.. Something which I didn't do when builing the cluster :(

Is there any other way other than mkfs.xfs paritition to
change this attribute?

currently xfs_bmap gives the floowing

xfs_bmap -a index.html 
index.html:
	0: [0..7]: 616184..616191

Regards,
K.