Le Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:58:55 -0500 vous écriviez: > card: MegaRAID SAS 9260-16i > disks: 14x Barracuda® XT ST33000651AS 3TB (2 hot spares). > RAID6 > ~ 30TB > This card doesn't activate the write cache without a BBU present. Be sure you have a BBU or the performance will always be unbearably awful. Then proceed like Eric suggested. Initialize your filesystem with the right options : su= your RAID stripe size, sw= your RAID array data members (for RAID 6, the total number minus 2), don't forget the useful option -l lazy-count=1, and mount with nobarriers and inode64. BTW apparently you're confusing hot spares and parity drives. A RAID-6 array has 2 parity drives; then it may have or not 1 or more hot spares (generally one is enough). I suppose your array is actually a 12 data + 2 parity drives. regards, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Emmanuel Florac | Direction technique | Intellique | <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | +33 1 78 94 84 02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs