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From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@uoregon.edu>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>,
	Adam Kropelin <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux: Why software RAID?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 10:31:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44FC62E0.6030202@uoregon.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44FC62EF.7040100@tmr.com>



Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> 
>> Ar Iau, 2006-08-24 am 07:31 -0700, ysgrifennodd Marc Perkel:
>>  
>>
>>> So - the bottom line answer to my question is that unless you are
>>> running raid 5 and you have a high powered raid card with cache and
>>> battery backup that there is no significant speed increase to use
>>> hardware raid. For raid 0 there is no advantage.
>>>
>>>   
>> If your raid is entirely on PCI plug in cards and you are doing RAID1
>> there is a speed up using hardware assisted raid because of the PCI bus
>> contention.
>>
> 
> I would expect to see this with RAID5 as well, for the same reason...

assuming you actually have lots of pci contention that might be a
consideration... if you're sitting on server class hardware with
multiple pci buses or using pci-express cards that won't be a
significant issue.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-04 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-24  3:34 Linux: Why software RAID? Jeff Garzik
2006-08-24  4:22 ` Richard Scobie
2006-08-24  8:19   ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-24 20:08     ` Richard Scobie
2006-08-24  5:20 ` Chris Friesen
2006-08-24  5:25   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-26 20:55     ` Dan Williams
2006-08-24  5:43   ` Mattias Wadenstein
2006-08-24 13:07 ` Adam Kropelin
2006-08-24 13:20   ` Alan Cox
2006-08-24 13:36     ` Adam Kropelin
2006-08-24 13:42       ` Gordon Henderson
2006-09-04 17:29         ` Bill Davidsen
2006-08-24 14:55       ` Mark Lord
     [not found]     ` <44EDB843.2020608@perkel.com>
2006-08-24 15:21       ` Alan Cox
2006-09-04 17:31         ` Bill Davidsen
2006-09-04 17:31           ` Joel Jaeggli [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-26  3:50 linux
2006-08-26 12:18 ` Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro)

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