i have found that on raid 1, chunk size does not matter for performance. what
matters more seems to be the block size option to mke2fs. i make my mysql
stores with chunksize 16, and run mke2fs with -R stride=4 -b 4096
allan
Erich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> I looked through the documentation, and I can't find any good
> information about what the chunk size should be in a mirrored
> configruation. I'm using three disks in a Level 1 configuration. The
> data on the disks will be a MySQL database, and a bunch of files. Any
> hints on an appropriate chunk size? I just put
>
> chunk-size 8
>
> in my /etc/raidtab. Is that a good choice?
>
> Btw, once it's working, software RAID is very cool. It auto-detects
> and mounts normally during boot, without any messing around with init
> scripts.
>
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