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--- nas:build_a_linux_nas:create_a_filesystem [2021/09/25 20:03] – peter
+++ nas:build_a_linux_nas:create_a_filesystem [2021/09/25 20:14] (current) – peter
@@ Line 8: / Line 8: @@
 **NOTE:**  **/dev/md0** can be used now just as any other block device.
-  * The script at http://busybox.net/~aldot/mkfs_stride.html can be used to calculate the best settings for the filesystem: <code bash>
+The following formulae can be used to calculate the best settings for the filesystem:
-mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 -E stride=128,stripe-width=256 /dev/md0
-</code>
-    * where
-      * RAID chunk size (in KiB):  512
-      * Number of filesystem blocks (in KiB): 4
   * **blocksize (in KiB)** = 4
@@ Line 25: / Line 20: @@
     * if Raid10 = number of disks / 2.
   * **stripe-width** = stride * effective_disks;
+<code bash>
+mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 -E stride=128,stripe-width=256 /dev/md0
+</code>
+For further details, get a recent e2fsprogs and look for stride, stripe etc. in the man page.
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