Alan Dayley wrote:
Maybe http://www.otisworldwide.com/ ?

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Side track: What does the word "elevator" mean in the context of RAID?

Alan

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Eric Shubert <e...@shubes.net <mailto:e...@shubes.net>> wrote:

    Is there a particular elevator that generally works best with
    software raid-1?

    (More generally, what is the relationship, if any, between elevators
    and sw raid?)

-- -Eric 'shubes'

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Ha!

In the linux kernel, the I/O scheduler is referred to as the elevator. It can be set to one of 4 values in the 2.6 kernel using the elevator= kernel parameter at boot time. Each block device's scheduler is determined by the value in /sys/block/<device>/queue/scheduler
$ cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
noop anticipatory deadline [cfq]

You can change a device's elevator on the fly by doing:
# echo deadline >/sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler

I'm just wondering which value gives the best performance when using software raid-1, or if the choice depends more on the type of load that's being processed.

--
-Eric 'shubes'

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