On 2/4/2014 12:08 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > Or the obvious and dropping the cache first, the way hdparm -t does. "hdparm -t" is a read test. Everything we've been discussing has been about maximizing write throughput. The fact that you argue this at this point makes it crystal clear that you don't have no understanding of the differences in the read/write paths and how buffer cache affects each differently. Further discussion is thus pointless. -- 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