From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Pilcher Subject: Reasonable chunk-size for RAID-5 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:17:37 -0600 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E1F3871.3010601@attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Can someone suggest a reasonable chunk-size for a RAID-5 array that spans 3 120GB IDE disks? Everything I read says that I should spend a day benchmarking things to find the absolute best value, but I don't need the best value (the array will be storing a bunch of read-only music files), and I don't feel like wasting a day on this. So what values are other folks using for similar arrays? Thanks! -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher pilchman@attbi.com ========================================================================