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Date:      Mon, 27 May 2002 22:48:54 +0900 (JST)
From:      Tod McQuillin <devin@spamcop.net>
To:        Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
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:  <20020527224614.V424-100000@glass.pun-pun.prv>
In-Reply-To: <20020527153552.A72342@energyhq.homeip.net>

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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.
-- 
Tod McQuillin



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