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Updated by Tom Morris over 4 years ago

We should even more strongly discourage the use of Serialize: True since it will almost always cause lower performance given request reordering in both the drive and operating system. 

 https://doc.arvados.org/install/configure-fs-storage.html 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Command_Queuing 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Command_Queuing 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface 

 Current text: 
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   # When true, read and write operations (for whole 64MiB blocks) on 
   # an individual volume will queued and issued serially.    When 
   # false, read and write operations will be issued concurrently. 
   # 
   # May improve throughput if you experience contention when there are 
   # multiple requests to the same volume. 
   # 
   # When using SSDs, RAID, or a parallel network filesystem, you probably 
   # don't want this. 
   Serialize: false 
 

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