Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:04:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Cy Schubert - CITS Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hardware RAID vs vinum Message-ID: <20020528130308.A71519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020528095948.D16567@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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
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