Bill Davidsen wrote: > > There have been several recent threads on the list regarding software > RAID-5 performance. The reference might be updated to reflect the poor > write performance of RAID-5 until/unless significant tuning is done. > Read that as tuning obscure parameters and throwing a lot of memory into > stripe cache. The reasons for hardware RAID should include "performance > of RAID-5 writes is usually much better than software RAID-5 with > default tuning.
Could you point me at a source of documentation describing how to perform such tuning? Specifically, I have 8x500GB WD STAT drives on a Supermicro PCI-X 8-port SATA card configured as a single RAID6 array (~3TB available space) Thanks, R. - 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
