I have since added a SSD to that system and would like to try using a partition on it as an external logfile for the RAID-5 filesystem. I've been playing with various test XFS filesystems and have discovered, as I'm sure many others have before me, that the journal is a big bottleneck when creating or deleting lots of files.
I've even tried fallocating a couple of gig from my XFS file system to a loopback device with reiserfs. Extracting and building the Linux kernel tree goes quite a bit faster than using the XFS file system directly, even after playing with all the usual mount options. The only way I've found to make native XFS equally fast seems to be an external journal on a fast device.
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