Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Optimum RAID 5 Stipe Size for Imail Server

2002-10-24 Thread Todd Ryan
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 2:18 AM Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Optimum RAID 5 Stipe Size for Imail Server As to this if you get a controller with a battery it should not be a problem. I make shure all of our RAID controllers have battery backup just

Re: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] Optimum RAID 5 Stipe Size for Imail Server

2002-10-20 Thread David Sullivan
As a footnote to my previous posting arguing for read-ahead with ample cache, performing a search is probably the most stressful use of the disk subsystem and could perhaps be used as a metric to evaluate the merit of read-ahead. As regards write-behind, I gather that we all agree that it is not