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Subject: Re: geom stripe perfomance question
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Steven Hartland wrote:

> It might be interesting from someone familiar with the geom
> code to have a look at the linux RAID code to see if there
> is any obvious reason why geom performs quite so poorly
> under just about every test I've seen.

One possible reason could be the 128K request size limit, but apparently 
it's something hard to get rid of.