https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014774266 "Use 256K. Anything smaller makes allocation blocks for the inode file inefficient. Anything larger wastes space for directories. These are the two largest consumers of metadata space." --dlmcnabb A bit old, but I would assume it still applies. -jf On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it needed to specify a different blocksize for the system pool that > holds the metadata? > > IBM recommends a 1 MB blocksize for the file system. > But I wonder a smaller blocksize (256 KB or so) for metadata is a good > idea or not... > > > Stef > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gpfsug.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org/attachments/20160922/765121be/attachment.html>