Robin Hill <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I doubt this would help much really. If you're reading sequential data > then it's pretty much as quick to keep reading as to seek to the next > chunk. Only if your stripe size is smaller than your bandwidth x seek time. Break even stripe size for 100MB/s 10ms disks would be 1 MB, so it might work well with 4-10 MB stripes provided the IO stack is up to it? Erno -- 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