FWIW, there are apparently some problems with software raid and xfs, since xfs uses a different block size for writing its journaling info then other files. I have seen this make the raid driver be switching constantly between sizes, generating a lot of kernel messages and being very slow. I don't know if this is related to your problem, but it does suggest that xfs+raid is not entirely ready for production.
-- see shy jo
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