Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 08:11:41 -0600 From: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: Scott Long <Scott_Long@adaptec.com>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, 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: <20020529141141.GC2262@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> In-Reply-To: <20020529134211.L82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <2C7CBDC6EA58D6119E4A00065B3A24CB04636E@btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com> <20020529134211.L82424@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 01:42:11PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > I'm sure that there are good reasons for small stripe sizes. I don't > believe that efficiency is one of them. I think your problem is that > you're looking at single-request latency. That's usually not an > issue, though it may impact copy performance. As I said, though, > that's not usually where you would use RAID-5. The real issue is not > so much latency as throughput. I hope I've been able to make it more > understandable. Greg, It is obvious that I have tread onto religious territory here, and as such there is probably little I can say to convince you of my points. I think that we must then agree to disagree =-) Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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