On 4/1/2012 1:20 AM, daobang wang wrote: > I have the different opinion, the application does not write the disk > directly, disk IOs will be merged before writen in kernel, just we can > not caculate how many IOs will be merged. Your original workload description was writing 200 or 100 video streams to 200 or 100 different files in parallel. What you state above is different than the original. Maybe you could give us a little more detail about how this application actually does its file IO. -- Stan -- 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