On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 12:06:47PM -0700, Erich wrote:
> I looked through the documentation, and I can't find any good
> information about what the chunk size should be in a mirrored
> configruation. I'm using three disks in a Level 1 configuration. The
well, from the man page:
chunk-size size
Sets the stripe size to size bytes. Has to be a
power of 2 and has a compilation-time maximum of
4M. (MAX_CHUNK_SIZE in the kernel driver) typical
values are anything from 4k to 128k, the best value
should be determined by experimenting on a given
array, alot depends on the SCSI and disk configura<AD>
tion.
Since a mirror isn't striped, I'd say it doesn't matter. I personally used
32 in my setup, but ...
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