Re: raid10: unfair disk load?

2007-12-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
maobo wrote: Hi,all Yes, Raid10 read balance is the shortest position time first and considering the sequential access condition. But its performance is really poor from my test than raid0. Single-stream write performance of raid0, raid1 and raid10 should be of similar level (with raid5 and

Re: raid10: unfair disk load?

2007-12-23 Thread Jon Nelson
On 12/23/07, maobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,all Yes, I agree some of you. But in my test both using real life trace and Iometer test I found that for absolutely read requests, RAID0 is better than RAID10 (with same data disks: 3 disks in RAID0, 6 disks in RAID10). I don't know why this

raid10 performance question

2007-12-23 Thread Jon Nelson
I've found in some tests that raid10,f2 gives me the best I/O of any raid5 or raid10 format. However, the performance of raid10,o2 and raid10,n2 in degraded mode is nearly identical to the non-degraded mode performance (for me, this hovers around 100MB/s). raid10,f2 has degraded mode performance,

Re: raid10: unfair disk load?

2007-12-23 Thread Richard Scobie
Jon Nelson wrote: My own tests on identical hardware (same mobo, disks, partitions, everything) and same software, with the only difference being how mdadm is invoked (the only changes here being level and possibly layout) show that raid0 is about 15% faster on reads than the very fast raid10,