Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 09:46:19 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: 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: <20020529094619.E31668@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020528130308.A71519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> References: <20020528095948.D16567@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020528130308.A71519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Tuesday, 28 May 2002 at 13:04:19 -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> This can only happen if there's something very wrong with the software >> RAID-5, either the implementation or the configuration. One thing >> that springs to mind is too small a stripe size. There's a myth going >> around that this improves performance, when in fact it seriously >> degrades it. > > Mind expounding on this topic? Sure, I have done in the man page. > The people at BayDel would like to disagree with you -- they ship a > RAID 3 box that has good performance. RAID-3 doesn't have stripes. But it's optimized towards single file access. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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