[rhelv6-list] RHEL6.2 XFS brutal performence with lots of files

[Tony Schreiner]

On Jun 5, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Zdenek Kaspar wrote:

> Dne 5.6.2012 22:10, Jussi Silvennoinen napsal(a):
>> Enabling lazy-count does wonders for workloads that involve massive
>> amounts of metadata. Unfortunately it's a mkfs-time option only AFAIK.
> 
> Can be enabled with xfs_admin, check -c option..
> 
> HTH, Z.

I have a disk-based backup server using an xfs volume. I would seem to benefit from this. What might be the downside?

Tony Schreiner