RE: raid performance? good?

[Michael Cunningham]

> What is your chunk size set at in the raidtab file?  In my testing, I've

4k chunk size is what i use as well.

> this isn't to say that there aren't room for improvements in software raid
> performance, as even with a 4k chunksize performance will level off after
> four drives, eventually dropping lower.  But with two drives and a low
> chunksize you should be able to see greater than a single drive's speed,
> though not 2x.

Unfortunatly on reads on a raid 1 array i am seeing about what it would
be for a single drive:( definatly not even close to 2x.

Mike
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