[Openstack] [Swift] Updating best practices for XFS inode size

Robert van Leeuwen Robert.vanLeeuwen at spilgames.com
Mon Jul 1 07:02:55 UTC 2013


> If you are using recent Linux Kernels, using the default inode size no longer has any impact to write (PUT) performance through swift.
>
> I would like to thank the XFS folks at Redhat for letting us know about the improvements in XFS,
>  and the XFS team in general for the great work they have done.


Hi Chuck,

Thanks for the heads up.
Do you, or any of the Redhat people, know if the Red Hat 6 kernel is also recent enough (are those improvements back-ported to RHEL 6)?

Thx,
Robert van Leeuwen



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