Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't underestimate the effects mere layout can have on multi-disk array > > performance, despite it being highly hw dependent. > > I can't see the difference between equal mirrors and somehow interleaved > layout on RAID1. Since you have to seek anyways, there should be no > difference between both approaches once you read big enough chunks. The > problem with reading big chunks is: you probably read far too much when > you don't really need the data you did read.
Think adaptive. > And vice versa: when you > don't read big chunks, it doesn't matter how your data is laid out. Think tracks and heads, physical that is. Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
