From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Landman Subject: Re: high throughput storage server? Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:47:37 -0500 Message-ID: <4D5AE669.10107@gmail.com> References: <20110215044434.GA9186@septictank.raw-sewage.fake> <4D5A98BF.3030704@gmail.com> <20110216073756.4c0291eb@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110216073756.4c0291eb@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: Matt Garman , Doug Dumitru , Mdadm List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 02/15/2011 03:37 PM, NeilBrown wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:16:15 -0500 Joe Landman 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). Cool! We need to start playing with this ... Which kernels have the support? -- Joe