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Date:      Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:05:16 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vinum in 4.x poor performer?
Message-ID:  <20050212135932.N20102@familysquires.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050209161917.Q94338@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <20050208231208.B94338@ganymede.hub.org> <20050208234602.M94338@ganymede.hub.org> <20050209161917.Q94338@ganymede.hub.org>

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On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> I read that somewhere, but then every example shows 256k as being the strip 
> size :(  Now, with a 5 drives RAID5 array (which I'll be moving that server 
> to over the next couple of weeks), 256k isn't an issue?  or is there 
> something better i should set it to?
>

The 4.10 man 8 vinum page shows 512K in the example, but later on it says 
that if cylinder groups are 32MB in size you should avoid a power of 2 
which will place all superblocks and inodes on the same subdisk and that 
an odd number (479kB is the example) should be chosen.

Mike Squires



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