some simple nfs-benchmarks on 5.4 RC2

[Claus Guttesen]

> That's about what I expected.  RAID 5 depends on fast xor, so a slow processor
> in a hardware RAID5 box will slow you down a lot.
> 
> You should try taking the two RAID5's (6 disks each) created on your original
> controller and striping those together (RAID 50) - this should get you some
> better performance, probably not as close as the amr device, but I would guess
> somewhere in the 80-90mb/s range.

This can't be done in hardware, since atabeast only supports raid 0,
1, 4 and 5. But I will definitively have this in my mind this when we
get a new storage-system (a different one).

Thank you for your guidance.

regards
Claus