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Date:      Thu, 6 Apr 1995 19:27:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin)
Cc:        terry@cs.weber.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: large filesystems/multiple disks [RAID]
Message-ID:  <199504070227.TAA15629@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199504071321.IAA00249@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Apr 7, 95 08:21:30 am

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> Yes. But mirroring gives additional throughput increase for reading
> like stripping (and decrease for writing unlike it :-( ). But from
> my experience big databases are much more often read than written,
> aren't they ?

No.  In most mixes I've run mirroring ends up having no net impact
on the speed.  The two effects cancel each other out.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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