From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Dominik Kubla <dominik@kubla.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: People using RAID-6?
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:19:13 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <402C7A71.50501@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040213071519.GC1555@intern.kubla.de>
Dominik Kubla wrote:
>
> What is your own estimation? Is it useable for production systems?
> What is the recommended code basis? Our customers are _VERY_ conservative
> (read: bankers), so they are mostly going with mirrors or striped mirrors.
>
I wouldn't try that at this point. I'm trying to figure out if there is
a userbase and how big it is, but the code is still very new.
> Is there any performance data for different work loads? Eg. how does it
> work for file service with different file sizes, read/write patterns.
It seems to be comparable to RAID-5 for reads down to about half the
speed of RAID-5 for lots of small writes.
> Since most of our customers need database storage RAID1 still seems to be
> the best appoach.
Probably.
-hpa
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2004-02-13 6:20 People using RAID-6? H. Peter Anvin
2004-02-13 7:15 ` Dominik Kubla
2004-02-13 7:19 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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