hi ya

chunk size does NOT matter for raid5...

if your disk was partitioned as... 2K bytes/inode...

        chunksize of 32 will allow you to write 64K of data
        in one "chunk" to disks

        chunksize of 128 will allow you to write 256K of data
        in one "chunk" to disks...

        or so goes the idea...
        whether your disks can sustain that or not is another issue


it also makes a difference if you used a inode size of 1K or 2K or 4k
during disk partitioning
        - lots of little files or  few huge/gigantic files  ??

#
# stuff on chunksize
#
http://www.1U-Raid5.net/ChunkStride/chunksize.txt

c ya
alvin


On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, axacheng wrote:

> Hello List : 
> 
> I have a question about RAID "chunk size" 
> 
> some sample write:
> 
> chunk-size    32  or  chunk-size      128  or  chunk-size     4
> @_@
> 
> it means, chunk-size=4 access performance is MORE THAN chunk-size=128 ????
> or
> chunk-size=128 access performace is MORE THAN chunk-size=4????
> 
> Whats different between       chunk-size=128 and chunk-size=4????
> 
> anyone know that???
> 


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