Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-06 Thread Peter Rabbitson
Janek Kozicki wrote: writing on raid10 is supposed to be half the speed of reading. That's because it must write to both mirrors. I am not 100% certain about the following rules, but afaik any raid configuration has a theoretical[1] maximum read speed of the combined speed of all disks in

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-06 Thread Janek Kozicki
Bill Davidsen said: (by the date of Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:16:14 -0500) Janek Kozicki wrote: Justin Piszcz said: (by the date of Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:28:27 -0500 (EST)) writing on raid10 is supposed to be half the speed of reading. That's because it must write to both mirrors.

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-05 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:55:07AM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:36:39PM +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote: Keld Jørn Simonsen said: (by the date of Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:00:07 +0100) All the raid10's will have double time for writing, and raid5 and raid6 will

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:55:07AM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:36:39PM +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote: Keld Jørn Simonsen said: (by the date of Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:00:07 +0100) All the raid10's will have double

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-05 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:54:27AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:55:07AM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:36:39PM +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote: Keld Jørn Simonsen said: (by the date of

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:54:27AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:55:07AM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:36:39PM +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote:

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-05 Thread Janek Kozicki
Justin Piszcz said: (by the date of Tue, 5 Feb 2008 17:28:27 -0500 (EST)) I remember testing with bonnie++ and raid10 was about half the speed (200-265 MiB/s) as RAID5 (400-420 MiB/s) for sequential output, writing on raid10 is supposed to be half the speed of reading. That's because it

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-05 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:28:27PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: Could you give some figures? I remember testing with bonnie++ and raid10 was about half the speed (200-265 MiB/s) as RAID5 (400-420 MiB/s) for sequential output, but input was closer to RAID5 speeds/did not seem affected

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-02-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:28:27PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: Could you give some figures? I remember testing with bonnie++ and raid10 was about half the speed (200-265 MiB/s) as RAID5 (400-420 MiB/s) for sequential output, but input was

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-01-31 Thread Janek Kozicki
Keld Jørn Simonsen said: (by the date of Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:55:07 +0100) Given that you want maximum thruput for both reading and writing, I think there is only one way to go, that is raid0. All the raid10's will have double time for writing, and raid5 and raid6 will also have double

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-01-31 Thread Bill Davidsen
Janek Kozicki wrote: Hello, Yes, I know that some levels give faster reading and slower writing, etc. I want to talk here about a typical workstation usage: compiling stuff (like kernel), editing openoffice docs, browsing web, reading email (email: I have a webdir format, and in boost mailing

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-01-30 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:21:33PM +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote: Hello, Yes, I know that some levels give faster reading and slower writing, etc. I want to talk here about a typical workstation usage: compiling stuff (like kernel), editing openoffice docs, browsing web, reading email

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-01-30 Thread Janek Kozicki
Keld Jørn Simonsen said: (by the date of Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:00:07 +0100) Teoretically, raid0 and raid10,f2 should be the same for reading, given the same size of the md partition, etc. For writing, raid10,f2 should be half the speed of raid0. This should go both for sequential and

Re: which raid level gives maximum overall speed? (raid-10,f2 vs. raid-0)

2008-01-30 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:36:39PM +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote: Keld Jørn Simonsen said: (by the date of Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:00:07 +0100) Teoretically, raid0 and raid10,f2 should be the same for reading, given the same size of the md partition, etc. For writing, raid10,f2 should be half