On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Michal Dobroczynski <michal.dobroczyn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I can only confirm - yes - _use_ linux soft raid... do not believe all > these "smart RAID5 hw cards" :) > > Regarding the machines "bought in 2008" - can you please tell me if > you have a separate controller (I am interested in brand/model) for > the drives or you are using onboard chip? > I am using ASUS M2N (AMD systems) and ASUS P5Q Pro (Intel systems) desktop boards with the onboard 6 to 8 SATA ports. To achieve good write performance I keep the default 64K chunks and tune the stripe cache size
echo 2048 > /sys/block/md1/md/stripe_cache_size echo 2048 > /sys/block/md3/md/stripe_cache_size John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
