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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: high throughput storage server?
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:37:56 +1100
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:16:15 -0500 Joe Landman <joe.landman@gmail.com> wrote:

> As a tie in to the Linux RAID list, we use md raid for our OS drives 
> (SSD pairs), and other utility functions within the unit, as well as 
> striping over our hardware accelerated RAIDs.  We would like to use 
> non-power of two chunk sizes, but haven't delved into the code as much 
> as we'd like to see if we can make this work.
> 

md/raid0 (striping) currently supports non-power-of-two chunk sizes, though
it is a relatively recent addition.
(raid4/5/6 doesn't).

Just FYI.

NeilBrown