Hi James, thanks for the info.
>> I was wondering if there is a way to convert without reformatting?
James> Not currently, although it may be worth reconsidering a
James> conversion from 5 -> 0 if you can alleviate your performance
James> problems with other methods (chunk size, -R stride=, reiserfs,
James> more memory, etc)
OK, I wasn't aware of the chunk size and -R stride= tunings. Where
can I read about these?
I was also under the impression that reiserfs was not working/stable
over software RAID5. Has that changed?
James> Just a thought, although for anything OLTP-ish you're going to
James> be so insert- and update-heavy that I'm sure raid5's going to
James> be less than ideal for some performance requirements... Keep
James> in mind that you won't be able to survive through a disk
James> failure like you can now, though (I know you already know this,
James> just want to rehash :)
Yes, I know that. Unfortunately, I'm working on an extremely
insert-heavy application (over 100 million records per day). I would
really like ReiserFS (due to the large file size as well as for the
journaling). I don't see how RAID5 can meet my needs.
Dave
