Hi folks. I remembered that there was a discussion on the list about some abnormal performance penalty if u use a partition instead of a whole disk for MD. But I could not find this discussion via archival or google. Could somebody be kindly enough to point me to the right spot? Thanks a lot. Ming - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html