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Date:      Tue, 28 May 2002 09:57:33 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tod McQuillin <devin@spamcop.net>
Cc:        Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>, Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hardware RAID vs vinum
Message-ID:  <20020528095733.C16567@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020527224614.V424-100000@glass.pun-pun.prv>
References:  <20020527153552.A72342@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020527224614.V424-100000@glass.pun-pun.prv>

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On Monday, 27 May 2002 at 22:48:54 +0900, Tod McQuillin wrote:
> On Mon, 27 May 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 06:02:23AM -0700, Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group wrote:
>>
>>> Did we see a difference in CPU utilization?  No.  However ODS and VxVM
>>> run below the kernel and cannot be measured by vmstat or sar, which is
>>> different to how vinum works because it is part of the kernel.
>>
>> I feel curious about this. Both ODS and VxVM are just kernel modules
>> that sit between hardware and the VFS layer if I'm not mistaken. What
>> makes them different than vinum?
>
> I don't have experience with vinum, but we also experienced terrible
> performance with Sun's ODS and software RAID-5.  We didn't notice similar
> problams with Veritas volume manager.
>
> I'm beginning to think it's peculiar to ODS, and that other software
> RAID-5 implementations probably work a lot better.

This makes more sense to me.

Greg
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