On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 at 18:59 Robin Humble via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 07:56:55AM +0000, Toby Corkindale wrote:
>went up -- writes still cap out at 27-28 mbyte/sec.

if you dd using large blocks does that improve things?
eg.
dd if=/dev/zero of=<whatever> bs=8M oflag=direct

When I was first testing it, I noticed that with block sizes around, say, 10M, it went at ~8mbyte/sec. With 100+M blocks, I could hit 24 or so.

-Toby