> As to this, in theory even having split the files among 4 AGs, > the upload from system RAM to host adapter RAM and then to disk > could happen by writing first all the dirty blocks for one AG, > then a long seek to the next AG, and so on, and the additional > cost of 3 long seeks would be negligible. Yes, that’s exactly what I had in mind, and what prompted me to write this post. It would be about 10 times as fast. That’s what bothers me so much. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs