Re: XFS: Abysmal write performance because of excessive seeking (allocation groups to blame?)

Stefan Ring
2012-04-10T14:05:10Z

> BTW congratulations for limiting your RAID6 set to 4+2, and
> using a relatively small chunk size compared to that chosen by
> many others.

Interestingly, it performs better with a larger stripe size, though.
Probably because it’s better able to combine writes when the blocks
are larger.