Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:03:04 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum write spanning Message-ID: <42117.1012230184@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:49:59 EST." <3C556517.CED19C80@mitre.org>
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In message <3C556517.CED19C80@mitre.org>, Jason Andresen writes: >I'm hoping there is an easy answer to this one... > >Is there some way vinum can be tickled such that it writes to all disks >in a plex at once? For instance, say I have a 6 disk RAID5 array >that I'm writing a 200MB file to. Is there some way I can make >vinum attempt to write data to all of the drive simultaniously? > >If vinum already does that I'm probably just saturating the PCI bus >and there's nothing more I can do, but it seems like I should have >a tougher time saturating the bus with 5400RPM drives... You can (over-)saturate a 32bit/33MHz pci bus with two or three modern ATA disks. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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