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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=965133220-10092008>If I run the
command:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=965133220-10092008>mkfs.lustre
--reformat --fsname test --device-size=8000000 --mgs --mdt
--mkfsoptions='-J device=/dev/sdc1 -m 0' --mgsnode=${MGSNODE}
/dev/sdb</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=965133220-10092008>Then, it
appears that the following mkfs.ext2 command gets called:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=965133220-10092008>mkfs.ext2 -j
-b 4096 -L test-MDTffff -J device=/dev/md29 -m 0 -i 4096 -I 512 -q -O dir_index
-F /dev/sdb 200000</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN class=965133220-10092008>Why is the
lower-case -i option 4096 but the upper-case -I option 512? Shouldn't
these two be the same on and MDT? Otherwise, we wasting memory on the
MDT.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN
class=965133220-10092008>-Roger</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>