cluster/stripe will split large files across multiple volumes, but it seems to always put the first part of the file on the first volume; if you have a bunch of small files they all end up there, and one volume gets heavily used by small files while the others are empty. cluster/distribute spreads files across multiple volumes, but it puts the whole file on a single volume. Some marriage of the two would be helpful for workloads which contain both large and small files, like adding an "option block-size ..." to cluster/distribute or "option distribute" to cluster/stripe; it would use the filename hash modulo nSubvolumes to determine which volume to start in for the first block, then rotate around the stripe for the rest. I suppose I can work-around by creating multiple volumes as sub-directories of the same partition, then striping across those in rotations, and distributing across the stripes. Is there some other way? Am I missing something? Jeff Anderson-Lee
