Dear Stan Hoeppner, In message <4D3FDC31.3010502@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > > # lvcreate -L 32G -n test castor0 > > Logical volume "test" created > > # mkfs.xfs /dev/mapper/castor0-test > > Is this on that set of 4 low end Maxtor disks? Is the above LV sitting atop > RAID 0, RAID 5, or concatenation? No, this is the other system, using 6 x Seagate ST31000524NS on a Marvell MV88SX6081 8-port SATA II PCI-X Controller. LVM is sitting on top of a RAID6 here: md2 : active raid6 sda[0] sdi[5] sdh[4] sde[3] sdd[2] sdb[1] 3907049792 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 16k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/6] [UUUUUU] > Try adding some concurrency, say 8, to bonnie++ and retest both XFS and ext4. OK, will do. 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 The price of curiosity is a terminal experience. - Terry Pratchett, _The Dark Side of the Sun_ -- 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