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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:30:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c
Message-ID:  <200112101830.fBAIU4w47648@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <200112101754.fBAHsRV01202@mass.dis.org> <200112101813.fBAIDKo47460@apollo.backplane.com> <20011210192251.A65380@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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:>     performance without it - for reading OR writing.  It doesn't matter 
:>     so much for RAID{1,10},  but it matters a whole lot for something like
:>     RAID-5 where the difference between a spindle-synced read or write
:>     and a non-spindle-synched read or write can be upwards of 35%.
:
:If you have RAID5 with I/O sizes that result in full-stripe operations.

    Well, 'more then one disk' operations anyway, for random-I/O.  Caching
    takes care of sequential I/O reasonably well but random-I/O goes down
    the drain for writes if you aren't spindle synced, no matter what
    the stripe size, and will go down the drain for reads if you cross
    a stripe - something that is quite common I think.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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