From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Moshe Yudkowsky Subject: Re: One Large md or Many Smaller md for Better Peformance? Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:19:13 -0600 Message-ID: <47940F31.7020907@pobox.com> References: <4793AE0E.609@pobox.com> <20080120215734.GD17584@teal.hq.k1024.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080120215734.GD17584@teal.hq.k1024.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Moshe Yudkowsky , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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. -- Moshe Yudkowsky * moshe@pobox.com * www.pobox.com/~moshe "She will have fun who knows when to work and when not to work." -- Segami