On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 08:31:58AM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > (single threaded) RAID1 performance in 2.4 is limited to the speed of the
> > fastest disk[1]. Can you hdparm -t both your disks seperatly and post the
> > numbers here ?
>
> I was under the impression that some form of the RAID 1 read balancing
> patch (for the 2.2.x kernels) had been incorporated into 2.4.x. Is this
> incorrect?
With the current on-disk layout, it is not possible to exceed the speed of
the fastest disk for single-threaded, sequential reads.
The balancing patch works for either multi-threaded or non-sequential reads.
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
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