topic Re: File System Block Size in Operating System - HP-UX

File System Block Size

Sundar_7 — Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:15:36 GMT

Why is that df -g always reports 8KB as the block size for both the VXFS and HFS File systems. fstyp reports correctly.

root@:>df -g / | grep -i "file system block size "
8192 file system block size 1024 fragment size
root@:>df -g /stand | grep -i "file system block size "
8192 file system block size 1024 fragment size
root@:>fstyp -v /dev/vg00/rlvol1 | grep -i bsize
f_bsize: 8192
root@:>fstyp -v /dev/vg00/rlvol3 | grep -i bsize
f_bsize: 1024
root@:

Re: File System Block Size

eran maor — Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:25:18 GMT

Hi

this is a known issue , use the command fstyp
to get the info .

The 'df -g' command reports on 'fragment size'. The 'fragment size'
status actually corresponds to the current 'block size'.

Furthermore, what 'df' reports as 'block size' is actually the
filesystem's 'maximum possible block size'

Re: File System Block Size

T G Manikandan — Tue, 24 Dec 2002 11:55:59 GMT

#df -g
displays the fragment size and the maximum possible block size.

So your df -g has given a maximum possible block size as 8192 kbytes and the fragment size 1024 Kbytes.

So just use df -g to find out the fragment size and

to find out the block size for vxfs
#fstyp -v /dev/vgxx/lvolX
f_bsize-->current block size
f_frsize--->default block size.

for hfs
#tunefs -v /dev/vgxx/rlvolX | grep bsize

Thanks

Re: File System Block Size

Shahul — Tue, 24 Dec 2002 13:12:39 GMT

HI

Why are you getting in to issues, that too known as per Eran.

#mkfs -m will give the exact block size of a filesystem.

Best of luck
Shahul

Re: File System Block Size

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 24 Dec 2002 13:50:26 GMT

There are some valid reasons for using larger block sizes on filesystems.

Oracle performance can be substantially enhanced by choosing an appropriate block size.

mkfs -m /dev/vg00/roracle2
mkfs -F vxfs -o ninode=unlimited,bsize=4096,version=4,inosize=256,logsize=512,la
rgefiles /dev/vg00/roracle2 30720000

[4264#] fstyp -v /dev/vg00/roracle2
vxfs
version: 4
f_bsize: 8192
f_frsize: 4096
f_blocks: 7680000
f_bfree: 4566335
f_bavail: 4494987
f_files: 1141856
f_ffree: 1141568
f_favail: 1141568
f_fsid: 1073741844
f_basetype: vxfs
f_namemax: 254
f_magic: a501fcf5
f_featurebits: 0
f_flag: 16
f_fsindex: 7
f_size: 7680000

That's kind of funny, on first glance it looks like things aren't consistent between the two commands.

I've heard of people going to 32 or 64 or 128 depending on how the application reads data.

Steve

Re: File System Block Size

Duncan Wright — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:05:41 GMT

I'm resurrecting this on, because I need to know why fstyp -v /mountpoint reports f_bsize=8192, while the blocksize specified creating the filesystem was 1024.

If anyone could help I would really appreciate it.

Re: File System Block Size

Tom Danzig — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:16:54 GMT

The "f_bsize" actually refers to the larges supported block size for the file system type. "f_frsize" refers to the actual block size of the file system.

Re: File System Block Size

Sundar_7 — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:13:29 GMT

"The "f_bsize" actually refers to the
larges supported block size for the file system type. "f_frsize" refers to the actual block size of the file system."

I dont believe this is the case. f_bsize is the actual block size of the file system. f_frsize is the size of the fragments.