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From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Verify filesystem is aligned to stripes
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:00:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CEE0995.9030900@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101125054607.GM13830@dastard>

Dave Chinner put forth on 11/24/2010 11:46 PM:

> Because writes for workloads like this are never full stripe writes.
> Hence reads must be done to pullin the rest of the stripe before the
> new parity can be calculated. This RMW cycle for small IOs has
> always been the pain point for stripe based parity protection. If
> you are doing lots of small IOs, RAID1 is your friend.

Do you really mean RAID1 here Dave, or RAID10?  If RAID1, please
elaborate a bit.  RAID1 traditionally has equal read performance to a
single device, and half the write performance of a single device.

-- 
Stan

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-25  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-24 18:39 Verify filesystem is aligned to stripes Spelic
2010-11-25  5:46 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-25  7:00   ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2010-11-25 10:15     ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-25 22:57       ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-11-26  8:16         ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-11-26 12:22           ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-26 13:15             ` Spelic
2010-11-26 14:05             ` Michael Monnerie
2010-11-26 14:36             ` Emmanuel Florac
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-26  2:43 Richard Scobie

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