Stripe sizes with gstripe

[Wojciech Puchar]

>> Does gstripe read an entire stripe at a time?  If so, why do that instead 
>> of
>> just reading a few requested blocks?  If not, then is there any advantage
>> to large stripes?
>
> Apparently it won't read anything larger than your stripe size which defaults 
> to a miserable 4k.


depending from what's needed, but unless i need just huge linear transfer, 
i set stripe size to something huge, like 256MB.

then single read is rarely split on 2 disks, while multiple reads have 
good chances to touch different drives