Re: chunk size (was Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats?)

2007-10-23 Thread Doug Ledford
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 21:21 +0200, Michal Soltys wrote: Doug Ledford wrote: Well, first I was thinking of files in the few hundreds of megabytes each to gigabytes each, and when they are streamed, they are streamed at a rate much lower than the full speed of the array, but still at a

Re: chunk size (was Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats?)

2007-10-20 Thread Doug Ledford
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 00:43 +0200, Michal Soltys wrote: Doug Ledford wrote: course, this comes at the expense of peak throughput on the device. Let's say you were building a mondo movie server, where you were streaming out digital movie files. In that case, you very well may care more

chunk size (was Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats?)

2007-10-19 Thread Michal Soltys
Doug Ledford wrote: course, this comes at the expense of peak throughput on the device. Let's say you were building a mondo movie server, where you were streaming out digital movie files. In that case, you very well may care more about throughput than seek performance since I suspect you