3 May
2013
3 May
'13
3:45 p.m.
On 5/3/2013 12:14 AM, Michael Weissenbacher wrote: ...
last quesion, stay with the defaults when doing mkfs.xfs, optimizing for stripe width and stipe size and all those other options really only make sense on a physical machine.
The potential benefit of alignment is always workload dependent. If the hypervisor passes correct RAID geometry to the VM guest and the workload can benefit from alignment, then you want alignment in the VM filesystem just as much as on bare metal.
-- Stan