Re: [gentoo-user] [Even More OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-01 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Ignoring the MS/*nix argument for a moment. How does fragmentation work on hardware RAID? The normal argument of more fragmentation = more seeks = worse performance would seem to be eliminated by a controller with a large cache and lots of drives (say a Dell/Equallogic PS5000E in RAID

Re: [gentoo-user] [Even More OT] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-01 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Anthony Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ignoring the MS/*nix argument for a moment. How does fragmentation work on hardware RAID? The normal argument of more fragmentation = more seeks = worse performance would seem to be eliminated by a controller with a