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From: Roman Mamedov <rm@romanrm.ru>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Alex <mysqlstudent@gmail.com>,
	Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Need to remove failed disk from RAID5 array
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:35:57 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120719203557.62a12bcd@natsu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <500818D5.4080208@tmr.com>

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On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:25:25 -0400
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote:

> That's a good argument for not using "whole disk" array members, a partition can 
> be started at a good offset and may perform better.

Not really, at least with the modern metadata versions this is not a problem,
as the whole-disk array members will start the actual data at an offset that is
suitably aligned for the AF drives.

-- 
With respect,
Roman

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"Stallman had a printer,
with code he could not see.
So he began to tinker,
and set the software free."

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-19 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-16 23:17 Need to remove failed disk from RAID5 array Alex
2012-07-18 20:26 ` Bill Davidsen
2012-07-19  2:44   ` Alex
2012-07-19  3:16     ` Roman Mamedov
2012-07-19 14:25       ` Bill Davidsen
2012-07-19 14:35         ` Roman Mamedov [this message]
2012-07-19 14:51           ` Bill Davidsen
2012-07-19 21:08         ` NeilBrown
2012-07-20  1:04           ` Alex
2012-07-20  1:22             ` Bill Davidsen
2012-07-20  1:37             ` NeilBrown
2012-07-23  4:14             ` Bill Davidsen
2012-07-24 14:02               ` Alex
2012-07-19 15:37       ` Alex

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