Hi, don't know if my comment helps: how about using xfs instead of reiserfs ? xfs was designed for high performance on heavy-loaded big irons. since we now have such a heavy-loaded big iron here, it would be interesting to see the difference in performance. -- Best regards, Rainer mailto:rfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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