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From: Mauricio <raub@afn.org>
To: LinuxRaid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: AW: Raid 1 vs 5 ?
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:27:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a06002007bcecbfe09c54@[10.0.0.10]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FA095C015271B64E99B197937712FD0227A85D@freedom.grz.icomedias.com>

At 07:10 +0200 5/7/04, Martin Bene wrote:
>  > Which one is the better choice and what are the trade offs? Or is
>>  another configuration more sensible? I'm under the impression that you
>>  shouldn't (can't?) boot from RAID 5.
>
>Depends very much on what you're going to do with the system - I've
>found a high performnce impact of raid5 for database applicaions with
>frequent updates (where you end up with lots of small writes scattered

	I've always thought raid1 would be slower than, say, raid0+1 
or raid5.  I guess I am wrong then. =)

>allover the partition). If write speed isn't too important, the space
>savings may well make raid5 more attractive.

	What about raid0+1 vs raid5? What is the difference?  In my 
setup, I plan on using the raid just to store user data; the machine 
would boot (/, /usr, swap, /var) from an unraid disk.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-09 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-07  5:10 AW: Raid 1 vs 5 ? Martin Bene
2004-05-07  5:52 ` John Lange
2004-05-07 14:29   ` Maarten van den Berg
2004-05-07 15:15     ` John Lange
2004-06-09 13:27 ` Mauricio [this message]
2004-06-09 14:57   ` Robin Bowes
2004-06-09 15:50     ` Robin Bowes
2004-06-09 15:59     ` Guy
2004-06-09 16:19       ` Robin Bowes
2004-06-09 22:55       ` Neil Brown
2004-06-09 23:39         ` Guy
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-07  6:14 Martin Bene

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