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Subject: Re: Slow Write Performance w/ No Cache Enabled and Different Size Drives
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On Apr 20, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com> wrote:

> 
> Ergo, there is no such thing as single device raid0, so the point at which all but 1 drive is full, writes fail.

Correction. Data writes fail. Metadata writes apparently still succeed, as zero length files are created. I now have several hundred such files. But no implosion, and the file system continues to work.

-rwxr-x---. 1 root root      0 Apr 20 15:01 IMG_3328.dng

I suppose this has pros and cons.


Chris Murphy