On 22/10/13 02:36, Steve Bergman wrote: <snip> > But hey, this is going to be a very nice opportunity for observing XFS's > savvy with parallel i/o. You mentioned using a 6-drive RAID10 in your first email, with XFS on top of that. Stan is the expert here, but my understanding is that you should go for three 2-drive RAID1 pairs, and then use an md linear "raid" for these pairs and put XFS on top of that in order to get the full benefits of XFS parallelism. mvh., David -- 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