Questions about the speed when MD-RAID array is being initialized.

2007-05-10 Thread Liang Yang
Hi, I created a MD-RAID5 array using 8 Maxtor SAS Disk Drives (chunk size is 256k). I have measured the data transfer speed for single SAS disk drive (physical drive, not filesystem on it), it is roughly about 80~90MB/s. However, I notice MD also reports the speed for the RAID5 array when it

Re: Questions about the speed when MD-RAID array is being initialized.

2007-05-10 Thread Liang Yang
Could you please give me more details about this? What do you mean the fast end and slow end part of disk? Do you mean the location in each disk platter? Thanks, Liang - Original Message - From: Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Liang Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Liang Yang
Do we need to consider the chunk size when we adjust the value of Striped_Cache_Szie for the MD-RAID5 array? Liang - Original Message - From: Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: kyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sent: Monday, January

What is the exacting meaning of Striped_Cache_Size?

2007-01-21 Thread Liang Yang
Hello, I have tried to increase the Striped_Cache_Size from 256 (default for my MD-RAID5 array) to 8192, it does improve the MD-RAID5 Write performance which varies with the size of I/O packet. However, I'm still not very clean the meaning and the potential performance impact of this

RE: What is the exacting meaning of Striped_Cache_Size?

2007-01-21 Thread Liang Yang
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Williams Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 11:07 PM To: Liang Yang Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What is the exacting meaning of Striped_Cache_Size? On 1/21/07, Liang Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have tried to increase