Re: Propose of enhancement of raid1 driver

2006-10-30 Thread Al Boldi
Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what still isn't clear, why can't raid1 use something like the raid10 offset=2 mode? RAID1 has equal data on all mirrors, so sooner or later you have to seek somewhere - no matter how you layout the data on each mirror.

Re: Propose of enhancement of raid1 driver

2006-10-30 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
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

Re: Propose of enhancement of raid1 driver

2006-10-30 Thread Al Boldi
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

Re: Propose of enhancement of raid1 driver

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
If linux RAID-10 is still much slower than RAID-1 this discussion is kind of moot, right? Jeff - 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

Re: Propose of enhancement of raid1 driver

2006-10-28 Thread Al Boldi
Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skipping over blocks within a track is no faster than reading blocks in the track, so you would need to make sure that your chunk size is Not even no faster but probably even slower. Surely slower, on conventional hds

Re: Propose of enhancement of raid1 driver

2006-10-23 Thread Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skipping over blocks within a track is no faster than reading blocks in the track, so you would need to make sure that your chunk size is Not even no faster but probably even slower. For seek()+read() from userspace this gets smoothed by the kernel's implicit

Re: Propose of enhancement of raid1 driver

2006-10-21 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Neil Brown wrote: On Tuesday October 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to propose an enhancement of raid 1 driver in linux kernel. The enhancement would be speedup of data reading on mirrored partitions. The idea is easy. If we have mirrored partition over 2 disks, and these disk are in

Re: Propose of enhancement of raid1 driver

2006-10-19 Thread Doug Ledford
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 13:28 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: On Tuesday October 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to propose an enhancement of raid 1 driver in linux kernel. The enhancement would be speedup of data reading on mirrored partitions. The idea is easy. If we have mirrored

Re: Propose of enhancement of raid1 driver

2006-10-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday October 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to propose an enhancement of raid 1 driver in linux kernel. The enhancement would be speedup of data reading on mirrored partitions. The idea is easy. If we have mirrored partition over 2 disks, and these disk are in sync, there is

Propose of enhancement of raid1 driver

2006-10-17 Thread Miroslaw Mieszczak
I would like to propose an enhancement of raid 1 driver in linux kernel. The enhancement would be speedup of data reading on mirrored partitions. The idea is easy. If we have mirrored partition over 2 disks, and these disk are in sync, there is possibility of simultaneous reading of the data from