From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: vincent Ferrer <vincentchicago1@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid5 to utilize upto 8 cores
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 03:29:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <502E00F1.8090207@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEyJA_sfAUk9PNFfss9m=pAi90Pb0gTHo9seV-BDexr3pLVvxg@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/16/2012 5:11 PM, vincent Ferrer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
>> On 8/15/2012 9:56 PM, vincent Ferrer wrote:
>>
>>> - My storage server has upto 8 cores running linux kernel 2.6.32.27.
>>> - I created a raid5 device of 10 SSDs .
>>
>> No it is not normal practice. I 'preach' against it regularly when I
>> see OPs doing it. It's quite insane.
>>
>> There are a couple of sane things you can do today to address your problem:
>>
>> Stan
>>
>
> Hi Stan,
> Follow-up question for 2 types of setups i may have to prepare:
> 1) setup A has 80 SSDs.
This is simply silly. There's no need for exaggeration here.
> 2) Setup B has only 12 SSDs. Question: Is it more practical to
> have only one raid5 device, even though I may have 4-5 physically
> different clients or create 2 raid5 devices each having 6 SSDs.
As I repeat in every such case: What is your workload? Creating a
storage specification is driven by the requirements of the workload.
--
Stan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-17 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-16 2:56 raid5 to utilize upto 8 cores vincent Ferrer
2012-08-16 5:58 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-16 7:03 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2012-08-16 7:52 ` David Brown
2012-08-16 15:47 ` Flynn
2012-08-17 7:15 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-17 7:29 ` David Brown
2012-08-17 10:52 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-17 11:47 ` David Brown
2012-08-18 4:55 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-18 8:59 ` David Brown
[not found] ` <CAEyJA_ungvS_o6dpKL+eghpavRwtY9eaDNCRJF0eUULoC0P6BA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-08-16 8:55 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-08-16 22:11 ` vincent Ferrer
2012-08-17 7:52 ` David Brown
2012-08-17 8:29 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
[not found] ` <CAD9gYJLwuai2kGw1D1wQoK8cOvMOiCCcN3hAY=k_jj0=4og3Vg@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAEyJA_tGFtN2HMYa=vDV7m9N8thA-6MJ5TFo20X1yEpG3HQWYw@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <CAD9gYJK09kRMb_v25uwmG7eRfFQLQyEd4SMXWBSPwYkpP56jcw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-08-16 21:51 ` vincent Ferrer
2012-08-16 22:29 ` Roberto Spadim
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