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From: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@keldix.com>
To: Roberto Spadim <roberto@spadim.com.br>
Cc: "Keld Jørn Simonsen" <keld@keldix.com>,
	"David Brown" <david@westcontrol.com>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's the typical RAID10 setup?
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 18:56:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110201175625.GA25953@www2.open-std.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikUuJ5T8r0btFGzeb73BSW97kcsV5JDAjD9my+9@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 02:24:01PM -0200, Roberto Spadim wrote:
> thinking about this:
> 
> > I don't think you get the striping performance of raid10,f2 with this
> > layout. And that is one of the main advantages of raid10,f2 layout.
> > Have you tried it out?
> 
> since you have a raid1, you don?t need striping, you can read from any
> mirror, the information is the same, raid1 read is as fast as raid0
> read, just write is slower (it must read on each mirror)
> the only problem is raid0 part, or you use linear or stripe, i think
> raid10 mdadm algorithm use stripe for raid0 part

well, raid0 is for reading sequentially, about double as fast as raid1.
https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Performance

best regards
keld

> 2011/2/1 Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@keldix.com>:
> > On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 11:01:33AM +0100, David Brown wrote:
> >> On 31/01/2011 23:52, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> >> >raid1+0 and Linux MD raid10 are similar, but significantly different
> >> >in a number of ways. Linux MD raid10 can run on only 2 drives.
> >> >Linux raid10,f2 has almost RAID0 striping performance in sequential read.
> >> >You can have an odd number of drives in raid10.
> >> >And you can have as many copies as you like in raid10,
> >> >
> >>
> >> You can make raid10,f2 functionality from raid1+0 by using partitions.
> >> For example, to get a raid10,f2 equivalent on two drives, partition them
> >> into equal halves.  Then make md0 a raid1 mirror of sda1 and sdb2, and
> >> md1 a raid1 mirror of sdb1 and sda2.  Finally, make md2 a raid0 stripe
> >> set of md0 and md1.
> >
> > I don't think you get the striping performance of raid10,f2 with this
> > layout. And that is one of the main advantages of raid10,f2 layout.
> > Have you tried it out?
> >
> > As far as I can see the layout of blocks are not alternating between the
> > disks. You have one raid1 of sda1 and sdb2, there a file is allocated on
> > blocks sequentially on sda1 and then mirrored on sdb2, where it is also
> > sequentially allocated. That gives no striping.
> >
> >> I don't think there is any way you can get the equivalent of raid10,o2
> >> in this way.  But then, I am not sure how much use raid10,o2 actually is
> >> - are there any usage patterns for which it is faster than raid10,n2 or
> >> raid10,f2?
> >
> > In theory raid10,o2 should have better performance on SSD's because of
> > the low latency, and raid10,o2 doing multireading from each drive, which
> > raid0,n2 does not.
> >
> > We lack some evidence from benchmarks, tho.
> >
> > best regards
> > keld
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-01 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 127+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-31  9:41 What's the typical RAID10 setup? Mathias Burén
2011-01-31 10:14 ` Robin Hill
2011-01-31 10:22   ` Mathias Burén
2011-01-31 10:36 ` CoolCold
2011-01-31 15:00   ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 15:21     ` Robin Hill
2011-01-31 15:27       ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 15:28         ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 15:32           ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 15:34             ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 15:37               ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 15:45             ` Robin Hill
2011-01-31 16:55         ` Denis
2011-01-31 17:31           ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 18:35             ` Denis
2011-01-31 19:15               ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 19:28                 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-01-31 19:35                   ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 19:37                     ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 20:22                     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-01-31 20:17                   ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-01-31 20:37                     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-01-31 21:20                       ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 21:24                         ` Mathias Burén
2011-01-31 21:27                           ` Jon Nelson
2011-01-31 21:47                             ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 21:51                               ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 22:50                                 ` NeilBrown
2011-01-31 22:53                                   ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 23:10                                     ` NeilBrown
2011-01-31 23:14                                       ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 22:52                               ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-01-31 23:00                                 ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-01 10:01                                 ` David Brown
2011-02-01 13:50                                   ` Jon Nelson
2011-02-01 14:25                                     ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-01 14:48                                     ` David Brown
2011-02-01 15:41                                       ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-03  3:36                                         ` Drew
2011-02-03  8:18                                           ` Stan Hoeppner
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2011-02-03 14:35                                               ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-03 15:43                                                 ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-03 15:50                                                   ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-03 15:54                                                     ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-03 16:02                                                     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-03 16:07                                                       ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-03 16:16                                                       ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-01 22:05                                     ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-01 23:12                                       ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-02  9:25                                         ` Robin Hill
2011-02-02 16:00                                           ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-02 16:06                                             ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-02 16:07                                               ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-02 16:10                                                 ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-02 16:13                                                   ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-02 19:44                                                     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-02 20:28                                                       ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-02 21:31                                                         ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-02 22:13                                                         ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-02 22:26                                                           ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-03  1:57                                                             ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-03  3:05                                                         ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-03  3:13                                                           ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-03  3:17                                                             ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-01 23:35                                       ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-01 16:02                                   ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-01 16:24                                     ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-01 17:56                                       ` Keld Jørn Simonsen [this message]
2011-02-01 18:09                                         ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-01 20:16                                           ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-01 20:32                                     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-01 20:58                                       ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-01 21:04                                         ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-01 21:18                                     ` David Brown
2011-02-01  0:58                             ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-01 12:50                               ` Roman Mamedov
2011-02-03 11:04                               ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-03 14:17                                 ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-03 15:54                                   ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-03 18:39                                     ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-03 18:41                                       ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-03 23:43                                 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-04  3:49                                   ` hansbkk
2011-02-04  7:06                                   ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-04  8:27                                     ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-04  9:06                                       ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-04 10:04                                         ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-04 11:15                                           ` hansbkk
2011-02-04 13:33                                             ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-04 20:35                                           ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-04 20:42                                         ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-04 21:15                                           ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-04 22:05                                             ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-04 23:03                                               ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-06  3:59                                                 ` Drew
2011-02-06  4:27                                                   ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-04 11:34                                       ` David Brown
2011-02-04 13:53                                         ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-04 14:17                                           ` David Brown
2011-02-04 14:21                                           ` hansbkk
2011-02-06  4:02                                             ` Drew
2011-02-06  7:58                                               ` Keld Jørn Simonsen
2011-02-06 12:03                                                 ` Roman Mamedov
2011-02-06 14:30                                                   ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-01  8:46                             ` hansbkk
2011-01-31 19:37               ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-31 19:41                 ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 19:46                   ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-31 19:53                     ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 22:10                       ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-31 22:14                         ` Denis
2011-01-31 22:33                           ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 22:36                             ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 20:23                 ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-01-31 21:59                   ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-31 22:08                     ` Jon Nelson
2011-01-31 22:38                       ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-01 10:05                         ` David Brown
2011-02-01  9:20                     ` Robin Hill
2011-02-04 16:03                       ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-04 16:22                         ` Robin Hill
2011-02-04 20:35                           ` [OT] " Phil Turmel
2011-02-04 20:35                           ` Phillip Susi
2011-02-04 21:05                           ` Stan Hoeppner
2011-02-04 21:13                             ` Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 15:30       ` Robin Hill
2011-01-31 20:07 ` Stan Hoeppner

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