Thank you everyone for the advice and great information. From what I am gathering XFS is the way to go. A couple more questions. What partitioning utility is suggested? parted and fdisk do not seem to be doing the job. Raid Level. I am considering moving away from the raid6 due to possible write performance issues. The array is 22 disks. I am not opposed to going with raid10 but I am looking for a good balance of performance/capacity. Hardware or software raid. Is there an advantage either way on such a large array? -- Matthew Feinberg matthew at choopa.com AIM: matthewchoopa