AIX jfs filesystem

From: Nguyen, Joseph (JNguyen_at_WM.COM)
Date: 03/29/04

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    Date:         Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:46:32 -0600
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    Let say I have ten LUNs on 10 separate 8-packs on the shark. Each LUN is
    50GB. Do the two options below give me the same I/O performance?

    a) 10 filesystems, 50GB/fs, every fs stripped across all 10 LUNs

    b) 1 filesystem, 500GB/fs, fs stripped across all 10 LUNs

    Joseph

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