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From: Michael Weissenbacher <mw@dermichi.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Ideal RAID-1 Stripe Size for IMAP Server ?
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:34:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5126226E.2070201@dermichi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62DA4B79-7B29-4D9E-A756-FEC6838E5106@fiton.is>

schrieb Svavar Örn Eysteinsson:
> I thought so just after sending this email to the group.
> But the ACU(Array Configuration Utility) gives me the option of changing the stripe size
> and gives me 256 as default.
> 
> So that is irrelevant on RAID1 completely ?
> 
It should be, yes. I would guess it becomes relavant if you later decide
that you want to expand to a RAID-10 or (shrug) RAID-5.

Generally, a small stripe size (like 64k) should be beneficial for
random access patterns like on a mail server.

hth,
Michael

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      reply	other threads:[~2013-02-21 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-21 11:11 Ideal RAID-1 Stripe Size for IMAP Server ? Svavar Örn Eysteinsson
2013-02-21 11:40 ` Spelic
2013-02-21 11:46   ` Svavar Örn Eysteinsson
2013-02-21 13:34     ` Michael Weissenbacher [this message]

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