Re: Linux Software RAID5 - ballpark numbers

I started with a chunk size of 64K and moved up as far as 512K. A problem
here is that RAID 5 capacity is N - 1, and my N - 1 = 6, which is not
helpful in divisibility.

I only used JFS as a filesystem.

Best,

Rohan Beckles
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