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Date:      Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:15:06 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stripe sizes with gstripe
Message-ID:  <20080613161329.U1540@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20080613140130.GA8616@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
References:  <200806121521.16237.kirk@strauser.com> <F67BB207-BA27-4772-A90C-5CB3279F0172@hiwaay.net> <20080613090714.K4713@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080613140130.GA8616@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>

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>> then single read is rarely split on 2 disks, while multiple reads have
>> good chances to touch different drives
>
> Come to think of it I didn't try setting the stripe size larger than the
> ATA max transaction size of 128k.

yes it is.

max transaction doesn't begin on boundary. may (usually will) start 
somewhere inbetween. making stripe size >>max transaction makes it 
inprobable.


BTW you mean ATA max transaction or FreeBSD default MAXBSIZE, which 
i change to 1MB



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