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>From: Anne Wilson <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200405270011.i4R0BjtK010667 LDM Linux RAID JFS Anne, >Thanks much for keeping me in the loop. I'm learning a few things - Me too! >what is a "chunk size" anyway? It is the size of read/write blocks on disk. One part of tuning a RAID is to match the block size (chunk-size) with the formatting of the file system and, if using a hardware RAID, with the block size for the hardware. >In the meantime, I'll start up NLDM. OK, good. Gerry and I have agreed to keep the current setup running for a few days to see how things work. My last note to him noted that bigbird is running extremely well at the moment, so changing anything is not yet needed. If you look at ~ldm/logs/bigbird.uptime, you will see that the load average is staying below 3 and averaging something more like 1.4. We will see how things go as the RAID file system /data fills. We also talked about renaming bigbird to phoenix since it keeps rising out of the ashes :-) Cheers, Tom -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publically available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us. >From address@hidden Thu May 27 11:26:46 2004 Tom, Thanks for the info. And, glad to hear bigbird is happy now. I see have to rebuild some stuff on bigbird... yet again... I kept the big files on the /data partition, but INN also expects some housekeeping-type files to be in the same directories. sigh Next time if I have notice I could move stuff off, so if things are gonna change and you get notice please let me know. Anne