[Beowulf] Building new cluster - estimate

[Mikhail Kuzminsky]

In message from Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> (Tue, 5 Aug 2008 
14:10:33 -0400 (EDT)):
>On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 at 8:34pm, Mikhail Kuzminsky wrote
>
>> xfs has a rich set of utilities, but AFAIK no defragmentation tools 
>>(I don't 
>> know what will be after xfsdump/xfsrestore). But which modern linux
>
>Not true -- see xfs_fsr(8). 

Thanks !!
I didn't look to xfs details many years :-( - it's my mistake.

> Back in the IRIX days, it was 
>recommended to run this regularly.

I don't remember that xfs_fsr was included in IRIX 6.1-6.4 we used.

Mikhail 

>  However, ISTR that the current 
>recommendation is "as needed, but it really shouldn't be needed".
>
>-- 
>Joshua Baker-LePain
>QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
>UCSF