Daily Archives: February 20, 2008

SSD Without noatime Mount Option Considered Harmful – HUGE Performance Boost 0

The other day I blogged about running RAID performance tests and being disappointed by random write speeds. The clear loser here is rndwr (random writes). I’m pretty sure this has to with the 64k stripe/chunk size. I’m willing to be the RAID controller is deciding to write the entire chunk for small updates which would [...]