On Wednesday August 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am planning on doing some tests on disk performance for the following:
....
> 2.4.0-test5
> 2.4.0-test5 (with patches)
>
> My problem is I can't work out whether I need the last one, and if I do
> where to get the patches from. mingo's site only has a patch
> for 2.4.0-test1 - does this mean that test5 has these changes in
> already?
2.4.0-testx has "new raid" code in it. There are no outstanding
patches. So yes, it does mean that test5 has these changes in
already.
>
> If anybody has any patches for test5 which are worth testing then please
> e-mail me a URL or the patch (off-list).
I almost have a patch which should substantially improve raid5
performance... stay tuned.
>
> I will, of course, post all results to the list (or, more likely,
> summarise on a web page and post the link to the list).
>
> Any other comments?
I'm looking forward to seeing them.
NeilBrown
