Chris Lamb skeezics@measurecast.com writes:

FWIW, we (hi, Darrell!) helped discover this about 5 years ago on an F330 that was grown from 2GB drives to a mix of 2GB and 4GB drives. (We beat

I thought it was still the 1400 when we did that, but I could be mis-remembering.

problem quite a bit, since all new writes were spread over fewer drives. Empirical studies (i.e., watching the blinky lights!) highlighted the

Heh -- and we had /var/spool/mqueue on there which led to finding a new bug in the lock manager on practically a weekly basis. :)

Those were the days, eh? Now I have F760s that never drop below 7000 ops/sec -- hmm, I guess we are keeping up with Moore's Law nicely.

And to think, we were considering an Auspex -- my that would have been dumb.

Darrell