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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:52:25 +1200
From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: XFS over LVM over md RAID
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To: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
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Michael Monnerie wrote:

> FWIW, a stripe set of 256k means you do read/write 256k from a single
> drive on each I/O, then the next 256k from the next drive. I hope you
> have very few small accesses and mostly very large files. If you'd use a
> database on that system it would crawl...

Mostly > 2MB and multi GB.

Regards,

Richard

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