On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 06:10:17PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > A recent feature of Linux software RAID is a "write intent bitmap". The > purpose of this is that before writing to a section of disk the bitmap is > altered to mark it as dirty. Then if the machine experiences a power failure > or other catastrophic event then when rebooted it will know that the section > referenced by that bit is dirty.
It was reported that this feature produces a large decrease in performance. Did you check that? Bastian -- A father doesn't destroy his children. -- Lt. Carolyn Palamas, "Who Mourns for Adonais?", stardate 3468.1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]