At 03:41 PM 9/30/1999 -0400, James Manning wrote:
>[ Thursday, September 30, 1999 ] Tom Livingston wrote:
> > my tests seemed to indicate the same thing... 4k chunk was faster than
> 128k
> >
> > I understand that this doesn't necessarily fit in with the theory of these
> > things.
>
>I'm not so sure it doesn't, as when it comes down to it you need to keep
>as many drives actively fetching data as possible (hence adjustable raid1
>read-balance testing still on my to-do list), and with huge chunk sizes
>you'll end up in large periods of time where you're only dealing with one
>(or a small number of) drives.
>
>All my (frequently scientific :) testing has shown quite the sweet spot
>at 4k, even with my datafiles (none smaller than 1GB)
Can you edit raidtab and change the chunk size without corrupting existing
data?
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