From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Scobie Subject: Re: New XFS benchmarks using David Chinner's recommendations for XFS-based optimizations. Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 08:32:15 +1300 Message-ID: <477943BF.2030101@sauce.co.nz> References: <4778425A.4050805@sauce.co.nz> <18297.1341.691034.679513@base.ty.sabi.co.UK> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18297.1341.691034.679513@base.ty.sabi.co.UK> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linux RAID Mailing List List-Id: linux-raid.ids Peter Grandi wrote: > In particular if one uses parity-based (not a good idea in > general...) arrays, as small chunk sizes (as well as stripe > sizes) give a better chance of reducing the frequency of RMW. Thanks for your thoughts - the above was my thinking when I posted. Regards, Richard