On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:55:16PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > unligned, just fdisk /dev/sdc, mkpartition, fd raid. > aligned, fdisk, expert, start at 512 as the off-set No, that won't show any difference. You need to partition _the RAID device_. If the partitioning is below the RAID level, then alignment do not matter. What is missing from your original quote is that the original reporter used fake-HW RAID which can only handle full disks, and not individual partitions. So if you want to experience the same performance drop, you should also RAID full disks together and then put partitions on top of the RAID array. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- - 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