From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 3 16:23: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camelot.bitart.com (camelot.BITart.com [206.103.221.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3ACA115755 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 16:22:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gerti@bitart.com) Received: (qmail 9613 invoked by uid 101); 3 Sep 1999 23:21:37 -0000 Message-ID: <19990903232137.9612.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.2mach v148) X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.2mach (Enhance 2.2p1) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148) From: Gerd Knops Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 18:21:36 -0500 To: grog@lemis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Vinum: Best performance from mirror setup with two disks Reply-To: gerti@BITart.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have read everything I could find about vinum (man pages, recent questions Mailing list, Vinum intro) but I am still not quite sure: What is the best performing setup to get mirroring with two disks? I understand that I just set up one plex per disk. Write performance goes down due to double writes, read performance goes up since vinum will alternate reads between the plexis. What I don't quite understand is if striping gives me an added advantage in this scenario. Thanks Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message