Re: The performance is not as expected when used several disks on raid0.

2015-08-18 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2015-08-17 19:06, Duncan wrote: Austin S Hemmelgarn posted on Mon, 17 Aug 2015 07:38:13 -0400 as excerpted: I've also found that BTRFS raid5/6 on top of MD RAID0 mitigates (to a certain extent that is) the performance penalty of doing raid5/6 if you aren't on ridiculously fast storage,

Re: The performance is not as expected when used several disks on raid0.

2015-08-18 Thread Duncan
Austin S Hemmelgarn posted on Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:34:09 -0400 as excerpted: 4-device raid6, btrfs and mdraid both allow that, good point. But of course mdraid6 doesn't have the data integrity, only rebuild-parity. Huh, I didn't know that mdraid allowed that, I know dm-raid through LVM

Re: The performance is not as expected when used several disks on raid0.

2015-08-17 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2015-08-15 02:30, Duncan wrote: Austin S Hemmelgarn posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:58:30 -0400 as excerpted: FWIW, running BTRFS on top of MDRAID actually works very well, especially for BTRFS raid1 on top of MD-RAID0 (I get an almost 50% performance increase for this usage over BTRFS

Re: The performance is not as expected when used several disks on raid0.

2015-08-17 Thread Duncan
Austin S Hemmelgarn posted on Mon, 17 Aug 2015 07:38:13 -0400 as excerpted: I've also found that BTRFS raid5/6 on top of MD RAID0 mitigates (to a certain extent that is) the performance penalty of doing raid5/6 if you aren't on ridiculously fast storage, probably not something that should be

Re: The performance is not as expected when used several disks on raid0.

2015-08-17 Thread Eduardo Bach
Hi Calvin. thanks a lot for the quick answer and sorry for my delayed to reply. We got some security issues at some machines. I will answer almost al the replies below. Yes raid0 is huge risk. This setup is just for performance demos and other very specific occasions. I understand the the need

Re: The performance is not as expected when used several disks on raid0.

2015-08-17 Thread Eduardo Bach
The bether xfs performance we got was using 32 disks and 128KB mdadm chunk size. Could the be the problem we are seen? if each disk get 4KB, 64KB will be optimal for just 16 disks when usint raid0 with btrfs? 2015-08-14 15:31 GMT-03:00 Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015

Re: The performance is not as expected when used several disks on raid0.

2015-08-17 Thread Calvin Walton
On Mon, 2015-08-17 at 16:44 -0300, Eduardo Bach wrote: Based on previous testing with a smaller number of disk I'm suspecting that the 32 disks are not all being used. With 12 discs I got more speed with btrfs thanmdadm+xfs. With, btrfs, 12 disks and large files we got the entire theoretical

Re: The performance is not as expected when used several disks on raid0.

2015-08-15 Thread Duncan
Austin S Hemmelgarn posted on Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:58:30 -0400 as excerpted: FWIW, running BTRFS on top of MDRAID actually works very well, especially for BTRFS raid1 on top of MD-RAID0 (I get an almost 50% performance increase for this usage over BTRFS raid10, although most of this is

The performance is not as expected when used several disks on raid0.

2015-08-14 Thread Eduardo Bach
Hi all, This is my first email to this list, so please excuse any gaffe. I am in the evaluation early stages of a new storage, an SGI MIS, currently with two HBAs LSI and 32 disks. The hba controllers are LSI 9207-8i and the disks are Seagate 6TB, model ST6000NM0004-1FT17Z. To evaluate the

Re: The performance is not as expected when used several disks on raid0.

2015-08-14 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Austin S Hemmelgarn ahferro...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-08-14 14:31, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Eduardo Bach hellb...@gmail.com wrote: With btrfs the result approaches 3.5GB/s. When using mdadm+xfs the result reaches 6gb/s, which is

Re: The performance is not as expected when used several disks on raid0.

2015-08-14 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2015-08-14 15:54, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Austin S Hemmelgarn ahferro...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-08-14 14:31, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Eduardo Bach hellb...@gmail.com wrote: With btrfs the result approaches 3.5GB/s. When using

Re: The performance is not as expected when used several disks on raid0.

2015-08-14 Thread Austin S Hemmelgarn
On 2015-08-14 14:31, Chris Murphy wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Eduardo Bach hellb...@gmail.com wrote: With btrfs the result approaches 3.5GB/s. When using mdadm+xfs the result reaches 6gb/s, which is the expected value when compared with parallel dd made on discs. mdadm with what

Re: The performance is not as expected when used several disks on raid0.

2015-08-14 Thread Calvin Walton
On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 12:16 -0300, Eduardo Bach wrote: Hi all, This is my first email to this list, so please excuse any gaffe. I am in the evaluation early stages of a new storage, an SGI MIS, currently with two HBAs LSI and 32 disks. The hba controllers are LSI 9207-8i and the disks are

Re: The performance is not as expected when used several disks on raid0.

2015-08-14 Thread Calvin Walton
On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 12:30 -0400, Calvin Walton wrote: On Fri, 2015-08-14 at 12:16 -0300, Eduardo Bach wrote: Hi all, This is my first email to this list, so please excuse any gaffe. I am in the evaluation early stages of a new storage, an SGI MIS, currently with two HBAs LSI and