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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

  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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