[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS v5: Blocksizes and subblocks
Michael Hennecke
mhennecke at lenovo.com
Tue Mar 26 15:56:37 GMT 2019
Hi,
you have two storage pools. The calculation of the number of subblocks is performed on the system pool with 1MiB blocksize --> subblock size of 8kiB --> 128 subblocks. The other pool inherits the "128 subblocks", as all pools in a filesystem will have the same number of subblocks.
Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Best regards,
Michael Hennecke
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Hi all,
according to several GPFS presentations as well as according to the man pages:
Table 1. Block sizes and subblock sizes
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Block size | Subblock size |
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| 64 KiB | 2 KiB |
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| 128 KiB | 4 KiB |
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| 256 KiB, 512 KiB, 1 MiB, 2 | 8 KiB |
| MiB, 4 MiB | |
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| 8 MiB, 16 MiB | 16 KiB |
+-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
A block size of 8MiB or 16MiB should contain subblocks of 16KiB.
However, when creating a new filesystem with 16MiB blocksize, looks like is using 128KiB subblocks:
[root at merlindssio01 ~]# mmlsfs merlin
flag value description
------------------- ------------------------ -----------------------------------
-f 8192 Minimum fragment (subblock) size in bytes (system pool)
131072 Minimum fragment (subblock) size in bytes (other pools)
-i 4096 Inode size in bytes
-I 32768 Indirect block size in bytes
.
.
.
-n 128 Estimated number of nodes that will mount file system
-B 1048576 Block size (system pool)
16777216 Block size (other pools)
.
.
.
What am I missing? According to documentation, I expect this to be a fixed value, or it isn't at all?
On the other hand, I don't really understand the concept 'Indirect block size in bytes', can somebody clarify or provide some details about this setting?
Thanks a lot and best regards,
Marc
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