>> If I thought that the internal RAID was bad, that's only because I >> have not yet experienced an external enclosure from HP attached via >> FibreChannel (P2000 G3 MSA, QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre >> Channel to PCI Express HBA). Unfortunately, I don't have detailed >> information about the configuration of this enclosure, except that >> it's a RAID6 volume, with 10 or 12 disks, I believe. > > Without that information the numbers below may tend to be a bit meaningless. Yes, probably, but I likely won't get at the information, let alone change or tweak anything. But even with the most naive setup, a good storage stack "should" not exhibit this kind of behavior. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs