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On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:10:00PM +0000, Josi Luis Domingo Lspez wrote:
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> There are a couple of things that surprised me: it seems like LVM over a
> single partition is even faster than the partition itself (??), random
> seek rate grows with stripe size on both RAID and LVM, write performance
> with striped LV is about the same as RAID-0 performance, but read
> performance with striped LV is terribly slow compared to a similar setup
> with RAID-0 (even slower that a LV with stripe=1).

Last time I tested striping with IDE I got read of 56 M/s with bonnie++.

- Joe