-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 if you really know the type of data that will reside on your system then tuning does make sense. but most people end up storing all sorts of data and then the defaults tend to make more sense - or a differently tuned system. a lot of time tuning the delivery system will get you greater results: ie: samba/nfs/http/ftp? how are you sharing out the data? depending on the system - does it do anything else or just serve up data? you might want to tune buffers, io scheduler, and network settings - which i'm assuming you are looking into. Florin Iucha wrote: > Hello, > > I am building a file server that will store mostly raw images from my > digital camera (~ 8 to 11 MB in size) their associated metadata (6 > kb) and my library of documents (mostly PDF) and I'm looking for some > tuning suggestions. > > I will have 3x750Gb hard drives in RAID-5 plus a separate OS drive and > I plan to create a single md device out of the storage drive then > split it up with LVM then create XFS file systems for different types > of data. > > I searched google for half a day and I'm getting preciously few hard > suggestions for my kind of setup. Most folks have many more drives in > a hardware raid. Others say to use the defaults, but last time when I > used the defaults I ended up with 64kb MD chunk sizes and 32 blocks > stripe width (instead of 128). > > Should I worry about configuring the LVM block/extent sizes to match > the MD and XFS? > > Any hints would be really appreciated! > > Thanks, > florin > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoAS/oACgkQvE9HrEfeE4fYMwCbB/f9aPKdCr0jFTuicCmSd8fA XN0AoOkacxJacejP8A1PadzvDAu+siDP =CsBx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----