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From: Keld Simonsen <keld@keldix.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Gilad Arnold <arnold@cs.berkeley.edu>,
	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>, Roman Mamedov <roman@rm.pp.ru>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: migrating from RAID5 to RAID10
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 10:40:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100618084028.GA23230@rap.rap.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100618083053.7df5248b@notabene.brown>

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:30:53AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> 2-drive RAID10 f2  would be expected to provide better read throughput
> (possibly twice as fast) at some cost to write throughput.  For many people
> this is a worthwhile trade-off.  So it might be better for you.
> Read throughput would degraded down to write throughput (i.e. slower than
> RAID1) if the RAID10 were degraded.

The slowdown of write thruput is on the raw raid, and on file systems
without elevator algorithms. If you employ a file system with an
elevator algorithm, then there will be no noticeable slowdown for
writes, as witnessed by many benchmarks.

best regards
keld

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-18  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-09 15:11 migrating from RAID5 to RAID10 Gilad Arnold
2010-06-10 18:52 ` Roman Mamedov
2010-06-10 19:58   ` Gilad Arnold
2010-06-10 22:11     ` Drew
2010-06-10 22:21       ` Drew
2010-06-10 22:30         ` Gilad Arnold
2010-06-10 22:26       ` Gilad Arnold
2010-06-16 15:54     ` Bill Davidsen
2010-06-16 18:30       ` Gilad Arnold
2010-06-16 20:15         ` Gilad Arnold
2010-06-17  1:59           ` Bill Davidsen
2010-06-16 21:26       ` Neil Brown
2010-06-17 17:44         ` Gilad Arnold
2010-06-17 22:30           ` Neil Brown
2010-06-18  8:40             ` Keld Simonsen [this message]
2010-06-21 22:09               ` Neil Brown
2010-06-17 22:46           ` Gilad Arnold
2010-06-18  2:39             ` Neil Brown
2010-06-18  4:01               ` Gilad Arnold

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