> What MAY hurt, also for large writes, are the meta-data operations while > writing the file. (e.g. the file-size changes, journaling ...) > But i haven't tested that and can't say for sure how much that hurts. It hurts a lot. On my 1TB EARS when i was benchmarking unaligned partitions, untarring a linux kernel for example took ages. (tar output finished quickly but then you had to wait a long time till the shell prompt returns) With aligned partition, performance is normal. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
