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From: Peter Rabbitson <rabbit@rabbit.us>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help with chunksize on raid10 -p o3 array
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:16:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45F5C311.7030302@rabbit.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F59FE0.2000307@sauce.co.nz>

Richard Scobie wrote:
> Peter Rabbitson wrote:
> 
>> Is this anywhere near the top of the todo list, or for now raid10 
>> users are bound to a maximum read speed of a two drive combination?
> 
> I have not done any testing with the md native RAID10 implementations, 
> so perhaps there are some other advantages, but have you tried setting 
> up your 4 drives as a RAID 0 made up of a pair of RAID1s?

The advantage is higher redundancy when I can have any two drives fail 
in a x3 layout unlike the raid1/0 setup, although I sacrifice available 
disk space. But yes, I agree that if I was after pure throughput raid1/0 
would be more beneficial, with the downside of 1.5 disk failure redundancy.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-12 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-06 11:26 Help with chunksize on raid10 -p o3 array Peter Rabbitson
2007-03-07  0:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-03-07  9:28   ` Peter Rabbitson
2007-03-12  4:28 ` Neil Brown
2007-03-12 14:46   ` Peter Rabbitson
2007-03-12 18:45     ` Richard Scobie
2007-03-12 21:16       ` Peter Rabbitson [this message]
2007-03-19 14:14 ` raid10 far layout outperforms offset at writing? (was: Help with chunksize on raid10 -p o3 array) Peter Rabbitson

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