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Date:      Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:26:47 +0100
From:      Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AMRD (MegaRAID) BIOS rev another other questions
Message-ID:  <19991026112647.B95499@chuggalug.clues.com>
In-Reply-To: <19991024095811.61238@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:58:11AM -0600
References:  <3.0.5.32.19991020143339.016e0210@staff.sentex.ca> <19991022140949.A82396@chuggalug.clues.com> <19991024095811.61238@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>

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On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 09:58:11AM -0600, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> Indeed.  It's quite easy to put all cylinder groups on a single
> spindle; I've seen reports of up to 80% degradation under these
> circumstances.
> 
> > Where sequential read/write performance is not critical you can stripe at
> > cluster size to avoid this. Other wise using an odd number of spindles for
> > a stripe and an even number for a RAID3 or RAID5 or stripeing at an interval
> > which is not a power of two should work (12,24,48,76 etc)
> 
> The best I've heard of is 768 kB - 1 sector.  This works on Vinum, but
> it seems that most RAID controllers use a somewhat simplistic striping
> algorithm.  You might like to try 31 kB or such.  This won't make any
> difference with rawio, though.
> 

I would agree from experiance that 768 KB seems a good selection for vinum
and probably ccd too

-- 
GeoffB


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