Dear CoolCold, In message <AANLkTikx4g99-Cf_09kEGfF2mmf4Dnuh2A5gTrtKweDy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > > So can anybody help answering these questions: > > > > - are there any special options when creating the RAID0 to make it > > perform faster for such a use case? > > - are there other tunables, any special MD / LVM / file system / > > read ahead / buffer cache / ... parameters to look for? > XFS is known for it's slow speed on metadata operations like updating > file attributes/removing files..but things gonna change after 2.6.35 > where delaylog is used. Citating Dave Chinner : > < dchinner> Indeed, the biggest concurrency limitation has > traditionally been the transaction commit/journalling code, but that's > a lot more scalable now with delayed logging.... > > So, you may need to benchmark fs part. Thanks a lot - much appreciated. The first reply that actually was on topic... Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river. - Abraham Lincoln -- 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