Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 22:49:25 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net>, Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Initial performance testing w/ postmark & softupdates... Message-ID: <v04220836b4d21d1d3160@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <200002172136.NAA01506@mass.cdrom.com> References: <200002172136.NAA01506@mass.cdrom.com>
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At 1:36 PM -0800 2000/2/17, Mike Smith wrote: > I'm not at all convinced that any of these controllers (yet) have the > throughput to compete with a well-loaded software-RAID system. It's very > hard to argue with the compute and data-moving power of a small pile of > GHz-class processors, and very hard to put that much power on an add-in > card. That's certainly the argument that Greg has made fairly successfully to me, at least with regards to RAID-0 and RAID-1 (and combinations thereof). However, I'm not yet convinced that RAID-5 under vinum is reliable enough yet to fit into the same category. -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy _________________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/726.93.11 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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