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From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
Subject: Re: RAID5 created by 8 disks works with xfs
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:43:10 -0500
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On 4/1/2012 5:33 AM, David Brown wrote:

> For an application like this, it would probably make sense to put the
> xfs log (and the mdraid bitmap file, if you are using one) on a separate
> disk - perhaps a small SSD.

XFS only journals metadata changes.  Thus an external journal is not
needed here as there is no metadata in the workload.

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Stan