At 11:11 AM 9/30/1999 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Greetings.. I really appreciate the help yesterday on getting my RAID working
>on my UltraII. (Kudos n5xmt!)
>
>The last question I have is how do I figure out the optimal cluster size/block
>size/stride for my RAID. I will have 2 configured RAID-5 partitions:
>
>16 - 4.1Gig Drives (/dev/md0)
>26 - 4.1Gig Drives (/dev/md1)
>
>The first will be a drive for innd, so figure lots of small files. The second
>will be an anonymous FTP server for some mirrors we will be running. Figure
>larger files on the second. If you need anything more, please let me know.
If you'll have lots of small files, try a chunk size of 4K... should keep
waste to a minimum. On the other for the mirror FTP, 16 is probably a good
compromise.
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