Re: some simple nfs-benchmarks on 5.4 RC2

From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 04/20/05

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    To: Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com>
    
    

    Claus Guttesen wrote:
    >>That's about what I expected. RAID 5 depends on fast xor, so a slow processor
    >>in a hardware RAID5 box will slow you down a lot.
    >>
    >>You should try taking the two RAID5's (6 disks each) created on your original
    >>controller and striping those together (RAID 50) - this should get you some
    >>better performance, probably not as close as the amr device, but I would guess
    >>somewhere in the 80-90mb/s range.
    >
    >
    > This can't be done in hardware, since atabeast only supports raid 0,
    > 1, 4 and 5. But I will definitively have this in my mind this when we
    > get a new storage-system (a different one).
    >
    > Thank you for your guidance.

    You could use the atabeast to do two raid 5's, then use vinum to stripe those two.

    Eric

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