I created a raid5 array which consists of 4 SATA disks, then I make a XFS on it. Now, I pre-allocate a file using posix_fallocate, its size is 512MB. So I think the file space allocated by file system is sequential. After that , I am filling data into this file from the start position, for example, every time I write 64KB data, but there are 1 seconds interval between two writes. As for RAID5 layer in kernel, due to the 1s interval between writes, extra read operation(write penalty) maybe caused although the following writes is sequential in this file's space. So, in my case, is there some parameters to adjust in order to decrease this kind of write penalty? Can we tell raid5 layer to delay the read operation for that stripe parity computation because we know that the following writes start at the previous writes's end point? -- The simplest is not all best but the best is surely the simplest! -- 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
