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From: Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Optimal chunk size for RAID5?
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:46:19 +0100
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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