>I am wondering if I need to worry about stripe and width though as >mine resides on a logical volume residing on a hardware-controlled >RAID 6 device (i.e., one slice as far as the OS is concerned). 25 TB on a single volume, not distributed? Huh, let me know how long that takes to check the first time something sh!ts the bed and instead of some amount of a distributed portion of the data drops out of users reach, it *all* does:)