> This should be clarified in the docs alright...
>
> If you run two bonnies you will see that your read performance gets better
> (well the sum of the read performance will be superior to that of one disk).
>
> RAID-1 will distribute reads to the two disks, but it's not a gain if you
> only read one consecutive piece of data. If the two disks should share the
> reading, they should seek all the time (disk A should skip the blocks disk B
> just read). That doesn't improve read performance.
>
> However, if concurrent reads take place, you will see a performance gain from
> the read distribution.
So if we modify bonnie or use some other tool (any ideas?) that is multi
threaded and writes/reads a bunch of files we should see a
performance improvement? Anyone know of a tool we can use to effectivily
performance test a raid 1 array then?
Thanks.. Mike
