Re: One Large md or Many Smaller md for Better Peformance?

[Moshe Yudkowsky <moshe@pobox.com>]

Thanks for the tips, and in particular:

Iustin Pop wrote:

>   - if you download torrents, fragmentation is a real problem, so use a
>     filesystem that knows how to preallocate space (XFS and maybe ext4;
>     for XFS use xfs_io to set a bigger extend size for where you
>     download)

That's a very interesting idea; it also gives me an opportunity to 
experiment with XFS. I had been avoiding it because of possible 
power-failure issues on writes.

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