RE: Multiplexed RAID-1 mode

2005-08-01 Thread Al Boldi
Neil Brown wrote: { On Sunday July 31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Multiplexing read/write requests would certainly improve performance > ala RAID-0 (-offset overhead). > During reads the same RAID-0 code (+mirroring offset) could be used. > During writes though, this would imply delayed mirrori

Re: Multiplexed RAID-1 mode

2005-07-31 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday August 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Neil, > > Are you suggesting I do this? Well, suggesting you "try" rather than "do", but yes, that is what I was suggesting. > > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=2 \ > --parity=f2 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 > > I just t

Re: Multiplexed RAID-1 mode

2005-07-31 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
Hi Neil, Are you suggesting I do this? mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=2 \ --parity=f2 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 I just tried it and it appears dog slow - for example hdparm -t /dev/md0 claims 18MB/s, and I see a similar number in /proc/mdstat for resync speed. Getti

Re: Multiplexed RAID-1 mode

2005-07-31 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday July 31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Gordon Henderson wrote: { > On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > > > > I just ran a Linux software RAID-1 benchmark with some 500GB SATA > > drives in NCQ mode, along with a non-RAID control. Details are here > > for those interested. > > >

Multiplexed RAID-1 mode

2005-07-31 Thread Al Boldi
Gordon Henderson wrote: { On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Jeff Breidenbach wrote: > > I just ran a Linux software RAID-1 benchmark with some 500GB SATA > drives in NCQ mode, along with a non-RAID control. Details are here > for those interested. > > http://www.jab.org/raid-bench/ The results you get