Sorry Matt, Just checked with EMC netherlands, unfortunately, I'm right.
About the cache: a shared cache is easily flooded with large io's.
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Hi Hans,
Absolutely not true, and has not been true for a long time. Writes to an EMC never go directly to disk anyway, and when they do go to disk is purely determined by the microcode algorithms, and will often have nothing to do with stripe layout at all.
Thanks, Matt
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> Hi All,
>
> Today I saw an archived thread on orafaq about striped volumes in an EMC
> Symmetrix. Gaja mentioned that writing to a striped volume is performed in
a
> sequential fashion i.e. spindle B will not start writing block 2 before
> spindle A has completed writing block 1.
>
> Is this still true for a Symmetrix with 5568 firmware?
> Perhaps it's a better idea to let the OS handle the striping?
>
> Regards,
> Hans de Git
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