Veritas File System 5.0 Administrator's Guide (September 2006)

VxFS performance:
creating, mounting, and
tuning file systems
This chapter includes the following topics:
mkfs command options
Choosing mount command options
Using kernel tunables
Monitoring free space
Tuning I/O
mkfs command options
When you create a file system, you can select a number of characteristics:
Block size
Intent log size
Block size
The unit of allocation in VxFS is a block. Unlike some other UNIX file systems,
VxFS does not make use of block fragments for allocation because storage is
allocated in extents that consist of one or more blocks.
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