Is there a way to set a default for mkfs.xfs to favor more and smaller allocation groups?

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Issue

Performance can degrade as the size of allocation groups increase on an XFS file system. It would be preferable to be able to set a default to favor more and smaller allocation groups.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6

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