Re: performance limitations of linux raid

2000-05-01 Thread Clay Claiborne
More notes on the 8 IDE drive raid5 system I built, and the 3ware controller. Edwin Hakkennes wrote: May I ask how these ide-ports and the attatched disks show up under Redhat 6.2? Are they just standard ATA33 or ATA66 controllers which can be used in software raid? Or is only the sum of the atta

Re: performance limitations of linux raid

2000-04-26 Thread Clay Claiborne
The coolest guy you know wrote: > Clay Claiborne wrote: > > > > For what its worth, we recently built an 8 ide drive 280GB raid5 system. > > Benchmarking with HDBENCH we got 35.7MB/sec read and 29.87MB/sec write. With > > DBENCH and 1 client we got 44.5 MB/sec wit

Re: performance limitations of linux raid

2000-04-24 Thread Clay Claiborne
For what its worth, we recently built an 8 ide drive 280GB raid5 system. Benchmarking with HDBENCH we got 35.7MB/sec read and 29.87MB/sec write. With DBENCH and 1 client we got 44.5 MB/sec with 3 clients it dropped down to about 43MB/sec. The system is a 600Mhz P-3 on a ASUS P3C2000 with 256MB of

PLEASE HELP: mkraid aborts! - Never Mind!

2000-04-18 Thread Clay Claiborne
I just found the new patches at people.redhat.com/~mingo and everything is okay now. Maybe somebody should post this stuff on kernel.org and its mirrors. Clay