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> This is the "storage for beginners" version, what happens in
> practice however depends a lot on specific workload profile
> (typical read/write size and latencies and rates), caching and
> queueing algorithms in both Linux and the HA firmware.
To add a bit of slightly more advanced discussion, the main
reason for larger strips ("chunk size) is to avoid the huge
latencies of disk rotation using unsynchronized disk drives, as
detailed here:
http://www.sabi.co.uk/blog/12-thr.html?120310#120310
That relates weakly to Btrfs.
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