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From: "Leslie Rhorer" <lrhorer@satx.rr.com>
Subject: RE: RAID halting
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:03:46 -0500
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> Quad core Xeon 2.8GHz md RAID6 of 16 x 750GB. Delete 20GB file:
> 
> time rm -f dump
> 
> real    0m1.849s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m1.633s

3.2 GHz AMD Athlon 64 x 2 RAID6 of 10 x 1T:

RAID-Server:/RAID/Recordings# ll sizetest.fil
-rw-rw-rw- 1 lrhorer users 27847620608 2009-04-24 03:21 sizetest.fil
RAID-Server:/RAID/Recordings# time rm sizetest.fil

real    0m21.503s
user    0m0.000s
sys     0m6.852s

See what I mean?  'Zero additional activity on the array other than the rm
task.  We'll see what happens with XFS.