Tuning ext3 for a FC SAN?

[Bill McGonigle]

On 2008-12-09 10:58 AM, Kenny Lussier wrote:
> We haven't seen the
> performance from raw testing yet to give us any indication that the
> database will perform up to our requirements.

Yeah, you can't say much about ext3 tuning without understanding the raw 
performance without a filesystem.

Be sure to test with different block sizes. iozone can create a 
spreadsheet with all that, IIRC.

-Bill

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