Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:30:04 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c Message-ID: <200112101830.fBAIU4w47648@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200112101754.fBAHsRV01202@mass.dis.org> <200112101813.fBAIDKo47460@apollo.backplane.com> <20011210192251.A65380@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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:> performance without it - for reading OR writing. It doesn't matter :> so much for RAID{1,10}, but it matters a whole lot for something like :> RAID-5 where the difference between a spindle-synced read or write :> and a non-spindle-synched read or write can be upwards of 35%. : :If you have RAID5 with I/O sizes that result in full-stripe operations. Well, 'more then one disk' operations anyway, for random-I/O. Caching takes care of sequential I/O reasonably well but random-I/O goes down the drain for writes if you aren't spindle synced, no matter what the stripe size, and will go down the drain for reads if you cross a stripe - something that is quite common I think. -Matt Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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