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From: Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@gmail.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Optimal chunk size for RAID5?
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:46:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mccj2t$8eu$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150222173047.1ea65d67@natsu>

On 22.02.2015 13:30, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 12:31:23 +0100
> Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There are so many different views on the internet
>
> ...and yet you're asking for some more? :)
>

Heh, yes. I see the irony in that :-) But this is pretty much as the 
source as you can get.

>> Is there even such a thing as optimal chunk size?
>
> 64K should be fine:
> http://louwrentius.com/linux-raid-level-and-chunk-size-the-benchmarks.html
>

Okay, even if this is almost 5 years old, it is still applicable?

The disks I have are 4k sectors. Is there anything special I need to 
think about or is this handled automagicly these days? (I run a pretty 
fresh distro)

-- 
chs


  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-22 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-22 11:31 Optimal chunk size for RAID5? Christer Solskogen
2015-02-22 12:30 ` Roman Mamedov
2015-02-22 12:46   ` Christer Solskogen [this message]
2015-02-22 14:33   ` Alireza Haghdoost
2015-02-22 21:53     ` NeilBrown
2015-02-23  1:36       ` Christer Solskogen
2015-02-23  3:28         ` NeilBrown

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