On Nov 15, 2007 08:42 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Quick question Andreas, if you do not provide a -E stride=16 on a RAID5 > filesystem, how much worse does the performance become on say a 2.0 or > 5.0TB ext3 filesystem? Sorry, I don't have any numbers on that. It really depends on the back-end RAID hardware and the IO load. If it has a write cache it might not be any significant overhead. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Software Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users