With 2.4.0, software RAID in Linux will come of age.  
 The functionality that previously was only available through 
 separate patch sets will finally be part of a "Stable" kernel
 release.  However for much (hopefully not all) of the 2.4.0-test
 series, raid5 performance was extremely poor.

 This talk will look at how differenced between 2.2 and 2.4 affected
 software RAID, and how the various issues were (finally) dealt with. 
 In particular, it will look at raid5 performance and what was 
 slowing things down.