From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Subject: Re: New XFS benchmarks using David Chinner's recommendations for  XFS-based  optimizations.
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:14:02 +1300
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Justin Piszcz wrote:

> Why does mdadm still use 64k for the default chunk size?

Probably because this is the best balance for average file sizes, which 
are smaller than you seem to be testing with?

Regards,

Richard