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slow file creation with xfs on software raid5 - solved & thanks

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Subject: slow file creation with xfs on software raid5 - solved & thanks
From: Jens Schmalzing <j.s@xxxxxx>
Date: 15 Apr 2004 13:35:45 +0200
Organization: Lehrstuhl fuer vergleichende Astrozoologie
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Hi,

Matt Stegman writes:

> Make your RAID5 chunk size larger than 4kB.  I'd suggest you start
> with 32kB chunks; I chose 256kB for my RAID5 over four Serial ATA
> disks.

It just occurred to me that I never replied to this.  Thanks a lot for
the hint, it worked very well.  After extensive tests, we also ended
up with 256kB chunks.

Regards, Jens.

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