Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-0 with LVM - is there any point?

2007-04-16 Thread Bryan Whitehead
I think you need to try running a real benchmark like bonnie++ against both. For example, you run time dd but you don't include the sync in the time... Daniel Iliev wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Daniel Iliev, Actually I'd be glad to read some results from a Fake RAID-0 vs

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-0 with LVM - is there any point?

2007-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Daniel Iliev, Here we go. I think the results can't be interpreted unambiguously. Perhaps I'll use a benchmarking program in the weekend to get clearer results. I've found time to move things off the RAID to I can compare with freshly formatted filesystems. LVM on top of RAID-0 is

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-0 with LVM - is there any point?

2007-04-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Daniel Iliev, Actually I'd be glad to read some results from a Fake RAID-0 vs LVM tests. My bet would be that RAID-0 w/o LVM would give the best speeds Omitting LVM isn't an option, I'd lose all the flexibility that LVM offers. I don't see why RAID-0

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-0 with LVM - is there any point?

2007-04-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:39:06 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: Out of curiosity I made some tests which confirmed my expectations. What about you - did you have time (and wish) to take some performance benchmarks? I would be glad to see some additional results. So your tests show that RAID-0 is

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-0 with LVM - is there any point?

2007-04-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:39:06 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: Out of curiosity I made some tests which confirmed my expectations. What about you - did you have time (and wish) to take some performance benchmarks? I would be glad to see some additional results. So

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-0 with LVM - is there any point?

2007-04-05 Thread Daniel Iliev
Daniel Iliev wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:39:06 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: Out of curiosity I made some tests which confirmed my expectations. What about you - did you have time (and wish) to take some performance benchmarks? I would be glad to see some

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-0 with LVM - is there any point?

2007-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Daniel Iliev, Actually I'd be glad to read some results from a Fake RAID-0 vs LVM tests. My bet would be that RAID-0 w/o LVM would give the best speeds Omitting LVM isn't an option, I'd lose all the flexibility that LVM offers. I don't see why RAID-0 should be necessarily more efficient

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-0 with LVM - is there any point?

2007-04-02 Thread Daniel Iliev
Neil Bothwick wrote: LVM stripes data across the drives anyway, am I gaining anything from the RAID-0? Would I be just as well off by adding the two partitions directly to the LVM group? Hi, Neil I have to admit I've never made such tests and I'm guessing here but I would say that you

[gentoo-user] RAID-0 with LVM - is there any point?

2007-04-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
I have two SATA drives, I have a partition on each combined as RAID-1 on which I use LVM to create my important partitions (/usr, /var, /home etc). I have another pair of partitions combined as RAID-0 on which I have another LVM group containing less important partitions, where speed and space