From: Chris Hoogendyk (choogend@library.umass.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 10:17:49 EDT
Time to shoot this question to the list.
One of the projects running on one of my servers does web searching and
accumulates indexes and small text files in large numbers (using
InQuery). They ran out of space on an 18G drive and bought their own 36G
drive to replace it (on an E250). I did the dirt simple insert the drive
hot and pull up disksuite to configure it graphically. When I copied the
18G to the 36G, it used almost the same percent of the 36G as it had of
the 18G. My conclusion is that the default format on the 36G used larger
blocksizes; and, since the files were all small compared to the
blocksizes, there was a lot of wasted space when creating/allocating files.
Now we have a new server coming in, and that project will be on it. I
want to be prepared to configure the drive with a smaller blocksize
appropriate to the type of files it will be storing in order to get the
maximum use out of the drive.
Can anyone tell me how to plan/calculate for this and then how to do it?
Can I do it in disksuite? Or do I have to get down to formatting and
configuring the drive from the command line (I actually do most of my
work from the command line -- I just got spoiled by the
hotswappable/disksuite setup and never learned otherwise). Are there
limits on numbers of blocks/files or performance vs. blocksize that
would influence the plan?
Thank you,
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Chris Hoogendyk
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