Hi, Christoph. Yes, we work on 1TB file, doing lots of random I/O over a single file. We are using 'pwrite' ofr each write operation. Output of 'filefrag' in this file: file: 1364 extents found The 'mount' options are the same as mentioned earlier. About RAID, we use RAID 0. In a file with this size and this extents amount could happen the problem that we're seeing? Thanks. Kelbel Junior _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs