Re: poor io performance with xfs+raid5

[Justin Coffey <justin@xxxxxxxxx>]

> The alignment issue is mostly software raid5 specific. The ability to
> better align the writes will help on other configs to a lesser extent.

Thanks.  We're in the design phase of a new product and it's likely to use
some sort of largish NAS box.  Most likely raid 5'ed.  Initially (due to
cost) we'll probably do software raid but we'll want to move to hardware
level at some point.  I guess that means ReiserFS for us for now?

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