Florin Andrei
2011-Oct-14 20:25 UTC
[Ocfs2-users] is it wise to enable these features on old volumes?
(This is separate from the discontig-bg discussion) Several two-node clusters. 64 bit Oracle Linux. QLogic fiber channel. Pillar Data SAN. Our old volumes have these features: Compat: backup-super Incompat: None RO Compat: None A newly-created FS under 1.6 (I tested it with a 100 MB loopback file) has these features by default: Compat: backup-super strict-journal-super Incompat: sparse inline-data RO Compat: unwritten We have an image files volume, with lots and lots of little files; inline-data sounds like a good idea. We have a logs volume, with lots of files in a single directory; indexed-dirs sounds nice in that case (but it's not enabled by default on a new volume). unwritten sounds like it could give an overall performance boost. I am tempted to enable these features, but I am wondering about the wisdom of doing so. If these were new volumes created under 1.6, I'd have no qualms. But these volumes have been created quite some time ago, and used heavily every day. I may get some performance boost by enabling them, but would I give up any stability? Also, enabling the features, is it an online process, or does it require unmounting the volumes from all nodes? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/