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Date:      Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:44:00 -0700
From:      Rudy <crapsh@monkeybrains.net>
To:        Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, prad <prad@towardsfreedom.com>
Subject:   Re: first pre-emptive raid
Message-ID:  <48672120.8040909@monkeybrains.net>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20080628130824.025fb008@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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Derek Ragona wrote:

> Mirroring offers redundancy but uses twice the disk space, AND is slower 
> than striping.

Actually, disk Reads of a stripe and a mirror are the same.  Writes are same speed as a single disk 
(half the speed of a two disk stripe).

If you use something like gmirror and set the algorithm to 'round robin' reads are done from both 
disks.... if you access a 2MB file, 1MB is read from disk0 and the other MB from disk1.

Rudy



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