In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dphoenix@braven
et.com writes:
>
>Does it make sense at all to stripe primary slave,
>secondary master and slave together?
>I would imagine it is a waste of time , just looking for thoughts
>on this vs just a single primary master IDE.
On a normal system, random access time will have a much bigger effect on
performance than raw throughput.
Although you can transfer 800K sequentially to or from the outer cylinders
on a modern drive in 20ms, it's going to take just as long to transfer a
single 4K block from an arbitrary disk location because of seek time
and rotational latency.
So, you'd be better off running a file system on each spindle and spreading
your data out accross those file systems than striping for one big file
system.
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