> Quad core Xeon 2.8GHz md RAID6 of 16 x 750GB. Delete 20GB file: > > time rm -f dump > > real 0m1.849s > user 0m0.000s > sys 0m1.633s 3.2 GHz AMD Athlon 64 x 2 RAID6 of 10 x 1T: RAID-Server:/RAID/Recordings# ll sizetest.fil -rw-rw-rw- 1 lrhorer users 27847620608 2009-04-24 03:21 sizetest.fil RAID-Server:/RAID/Recordings# time rm sizetest.fil real 0m21.503s user 0m0.000s sys 0m6.852s See what I mean? 'Zero additional activity on the array other than the rm task. We'll see what happens with XFS. -- 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