Re: 5.1 RAID5 write performance

[Edgar Fuß <ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

> The block device writes through the buffer cache which has its own
> idea of block sizes which is either the filesystem block size stored
> in the disklabel for that partition or 2048 bytes as a default.
Yes, I'm aware of that. But that shouldn't lead to a hundredfold loss of 
throughput, should it?

I'm also concerned about the vnode wait channel.