From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 28 13: 4:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C9837B403; Tue, 28 May 2002 13:04:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.11.3/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g4SK4JI72546; Tue, 28 May 2002 13:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:04:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group , Kirk Strauser , Subject: Re: Hardware RAID vs vinum In-Reply-To: <20020528095948.D16567@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20020528130308.A71519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> X-All-Your-Base: are belong to us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 May 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > This can only happen if there's something very wrong with the software > RAID-5, either the implementation or the configuration. One thing > that springs to mind is too small a stripe size. There's a myth going > around that this improves performance, when in fact it seriously > degrades it. Mind expounding on this topic? The people at BayDel would like to disagree with you -- they ship a RAID 3 box that has good performance. /me puts on daemon horns :) Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message