Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 16:03:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Cc: craigs@OS.COM Subject: Re: Anyone using ccd (FreeBSD disk striper) for news Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960822160048.14970N-100000@sidhe.memra.com> In-Reply-To: <199608222150.QAA25222@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > Use a large stripe size. I use 1 cylinder group. You are not striping for > bandwidth. You are striping for CONCURRENCY. You _want_ one mechanism to > be able to handle an _entire_ file access on its own. By concurrency do you mean that the write requests are non-blocking and thus a request that lands on a second drive can start writing before a previous request completes? And did you need to fo that tweak to UFS meta data updates that makes it more like Linux's ext2fs? Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
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