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From: Charles Marcus <CMarcus@Media-Brokers.com>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] RAID chunk size & LVM 'offset' affecting RAID stripe alignment
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:56:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C28F050.9090703@Media-Brokers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C246A7A.50202@tlinx.org>

On 2010-06-25 4:36 AM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> Doug Ledford wrote:
>> Correction: all reads benefit from larger chunks now a days.  The only
>> reason to use smaller chunks in the past was to try and get all of
>> your drives streaming data to you simultaneously, which effectively
>> made the total aggregate throughput of those reads equal to the
>> throughput of one data disk times the number of data disks in the
>> array.  With modern drives able to put out 100MB/s sustained by
>> themselves, we don't really need to do this any more, ....

> I would regard 100MB/s as moderately slow.  For files in my
> server cache, my Win7 machine reads @ 110MB/s over the network,

My understanding is Gigabit ethernet is only capable of topping out at
about 30MB/s, so, I'm curious what kind of network you have? 10GBe? Fiber?

-- 

Best regards,

Charles

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-28 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-20 21:24 [linux-lvm] Volume alignment over RAID Linda A. Walsh
2010-05-21  5:10 ` Luca Berra
2010-05-21  6:48   ` Linda A. Walsh
2010-05-21  7:19     ` Lyn Rees
2010-05-21 18:50       ` Linda A. Walsh
2010-05-22  7:36         ` Luca Berra
2010-05-22  7:23     ` Luca Berra
2010-05-27 16:40       ` Doug Ledford
2010-06-21  4:26         ` [linux-lvm] RAID chunk size & LVM 'offset' affecting RAID stripe alignment Linda A. Walsh
2010-06-23 18:59           ` Doug Ledford
2010-06-25  8:36             ` Linda A. Walsh
2010-06-26  1:50               ` Doug Ledford
2010-06-28 18:56               ` Charles Marcus [this message]
2010-06-29 21:33                 ` Linda A. Walsh

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