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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:10:56 +0200
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Subject: Re: Question, Does BTRFS provide a read speed increase with RAID1
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On 14.06.2012 11:08, Jordan Windsor wrote:
> Hello,
> I was wondering if I setup a array via BTRFS as RAID1 will I get a
> read speed increase? (multiplied by the amount of harddrives)

Only if you read from multiple processes (or threads). Currently
the lowest-order bit of the pid is used to choose the mirror to
read from.

> Thanks.
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