Re: Specifying block group size

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If the filesystem is later resized, does the (default?) chunk size
adjust accordingly?

On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 10:04 AM Hugo Mills <hugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 10:18:40PM -0800, Raymond Jennings wrote:
> > How do I specify the size of a block group at mkfs?
>
>    You don't -- there's no explicit control over it. The FS will
> decide based on the overall size of the filesystem in question.
>
>    Typically, data groups are made of 1 GiB chunks, and metadata
> groups are made of 256 MiB chunks (where the RAID level will determine
> the number of chunks in a group and the amount of usable space of the
> group).
>
>    Hugo.
>
> >
> > Like, for example, saying that data groups will be 1GiB, but metadata
> > groups will be 1MiB?
> >
> > I noticed that they had different default sizes based on the profile
> > (dup vs single vs raid)
>
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