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> I find that my RAID5 array is just too slow for my DB application. I
> have a large number of DB files on this array. I would like to
> convert to RAID0, and I can back up my files, but I was wondering if
> there is a way to convert without reformatting?
Not currently, although it may be worth reconsidering a conversion from
5 -> 0 if you can alleviate your performance problems with other methods
(chunk size, -R stride=, reiserfs, more memory, etc)
Just a thought, although for anything OLTP-ish you're going to be so
insert- and update-heavy that I'm sure raid5's going to be less than
ideal for some performance requirements... Keep in mind that you won't
be able to survive through a disk failure like you can now, though
(I know you already know this, just want to rehash :)
James
