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From: "Bryan J. Smith" <thebs413@yahoo.com>
To: Ralf Gross <Ralf-Lists@ralfgross.de>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: mkfs options for a 16x hw raid5 and xfs (mostly large files)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:08:25 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <696865.53046.qm@web32908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070926151534.GD30287@p15145560.pureserver.info>

Ralf Gross <Ralf-Lists@ralfgross.de> wrote:
> You're right, but these benchmarks help to find simple failures or
> misconfigurations at an earlier stage of the process.

Yes, as long as you are comparing to a benchmark of a known, similar
quantity.

It's not uncommon for Linux's RAID-5 to be 2-3x faster at dd and
single file operations, especially if there are no, actual parity
operations.


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-26 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-23  9:38 mkfs options for a 16x hw raid5 and xfs (mostly large files) Ralf Gross
2007-09-23 12:56 ` Peter Grandi
2007-09-26 14:54   ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-26 16:27     ` [UNSURE] " Justin Piszcz
2007-09-26 16:54       ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-26 16:59         ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-26 17:38           ` Bryan J. Smith
2007-09-26 17:41             ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-26 17:55               ` Bryan J. Smith
2007-09-26 17:13         ` [UNSURE] " Bryan J. Smith
2007-09-26 17:27           ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-26 17:35             ` Bryan J. Smith
2007-09-26 17:37               ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-26 17:38                 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-26 17:49                 ` Bryan J. Smith
2007-09-27 15:22     ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-24 17:31 ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-24 18:01   ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-24 20:39     ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-24 20:43       ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-24 21:33         ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-24 21:36           ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-24 21:52             ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-25 12:35               ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-25 12:50                 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-25 13:44                   ` Bryan J Smith
2007-09-25 12:57                 ` KELEMEN Peter
2007-09-25 13:49                   ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-25 14:08                     ` Bryan J Smith
2007-09-25 16:07                       ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-25 16:28                         ` Bryan J. Smith
2007-09-25 17:25                           ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-25 17:41                             ` Bryan J. Smith
2007-09-25 19:13                               ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-25 20:23                                 ` Bryan J. Smith
2007-09-25 16:48                         ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-25 18:00                           ` Bryan J. Smith
2007-09-25 18:33                             ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-25 23:38                             ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-26  8:23                               ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-26  8:42                                 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-26  8:49                                   ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-26  9:52                                     ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-26 15:03                                       ` Bryan J Smith
2007-09-26 15:15                                         ` Ralf Gross
2007-09-26 17:08                                           ` Bryan J. Smith [this message]
2007-09-26 16:24                                         ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-26 17:11                                           ` Bryan J. Smith

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