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Date:      Sun, 8 Aug 1999 11:04:14 +0200
From:      Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/vinum vinuminterrupt.c
Message-ID:  <19990808110414.A12703@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990808164024.E10056@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 04:40:24PM %2B0930
References:  <199908070806.BAA66984@freefall.freebsd.org> <19990807181938.49481@hydrogen.fircrest.net> <19990808105939.A10056@freebie.lemis.com> <19990808085758.A2467@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <19990808164024.E10056@freebie.lemis.com>

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On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 04:40:24PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday,  8 August 1999 at  8:57:59 +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 08, 1999 at 10:59:39AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> Having said that, 3 drives isn't very much for RAID-5.  You use a
> third of the space for parity, and you don't get the read performance
> benefits that you'd get with more drives.

Hmm, o.k.

> There's currently no reason to believe that hardware RAID will give
> you better performance until you start to max out the CPU, which
> appears unlikely.

Well, I think I'd miss some diskspace using RAID 5. Would have to
get some more drives first...


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