>>The issue is the entire array will occasionally pause completely for about >>40 seconds when a file is created. This does not always happen, but the >>situation is easily reproducible. The frequency at which the symptom >i wonder how costly b-tree operaton are for a 8Tb filesystem... I expect somewhat costly, but a 4 second to 2 minute halt just to create a file of between 0 and 1000 bytes is ridiculous. That, and as I said, it doesn't always happen, by a long shot, not even when transfers in the 400 Mbps range are underway. OTOH, I have had it happen when only a few Mbps transfers were underway. -- 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