tis 2009-09-08 klockan 10:27 -0800 skrev Chris Robertson: > For what it's worth, I found that putting my COSS stripe in a file on a > congested disk did nothing for performance. I wound up creating two > partitions per disk. The first is dedicated to COSS and the second > (formatted ext3) holds my aufs cache dir. Hmm.. sounds like you may need to tune your ext3 a little.. primarily journal size & commit interval. When things are running proper there should not be any measurable difference between having COSS in a file on the same ext3 partition or on a separate partition on the same drive. Regards Henrik