Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of StripingUnitHint

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Timestamp:
10/19/09 10:58:00 (5 weeks ago)
Author:
robl (IP: 140.221.11.29)
Comment:

tune wording about less-than-blocksize alignment

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  • StripingUnitHint

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    5454hint need not necessarily be the size of the file system block, though some 
    5555rational fraction of the file system blocksize is probably a good idea.  For 
    56 example, on Argonne's GPFS, set the "striping_unit" hint to 128k. 
     56example, on Argonne's GPFS (with an fs blocksize of 4MB), setting the 
     57"striping_unit" hint to 128k will leave room for an enormous header while 
     58still making it possible to avoid a few unaligned file system accesses. 
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