[CentOS] Booting Software RAID

On 01/29/2014 01:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> How so, unless you are adding disk heads to the mix or localizing
> activity during your test?

Just ran into this: did a grep on what seemed to be a lightly loaded 
server, load average suddenly spiked unexpectedly. Turns out that it was 
performing over 130 write ops/second on a 7200 RPM drive! Partitioning 
data would into partitions would have no effect in this case.