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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>, keld@keldix.com, rspadim@gmail.com
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, matthew.garman@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Why are reads not balanced across my RAID-1?
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:05:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52EAB076.8070301@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140125011832.23432.qmail@science.horizon.com>

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On 1/24/2014 8:18 PM, George Spelvin wrote:
> Obviously, if I added disks and striped across them, sequential 
> performance would go up.  This is an actual RAID-10 layout. But
> it's not useful unless I buy more disks.

No, md can do raid10 on two disks, just not in the near layout.  The
offset layout with a sufficiently large chunk size mostly does what
you want.  I recently set myself up with a 3 disk array like that and
it pushes 500 MB/s using cheap, run of the mill 1 TB WD Blue drives.

The offset layout gives slightly better performance than far ( as long
as you use a sufficiently large chunk size ), and can be resized,
unlike far.


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-30 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-24 10:47 Why are reads not balanced across my RAID-1? George Spelvin
2014-01-24 12:04 ` keld
2014-01-24 13:33   ` George Spelvin
2014-01-25  1:48     ` keld
2014-01-24 14:56   ` Matt Garman
2014-01-24 16:50     ` Mathias Burén
2014-01-24 17:49     ` keld
2014-01-24 18:22       ` Roberto Spadim
2014-01-25  1:18         ` George Spelvin
2014-01-30 20:05           ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2014-01-25 17:52         ` Robert L Mathews

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