Re: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-31 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 01:43:49PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > raid0 will only get close to 'n' times a single disc when you have a > number of separate threads accessing the device, otherwise there are > fewer opportunities for multiple drives to be accessed at once. > I believe that bonnie is sin

Re: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-27 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:12:47PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > > Given the code at the moment, I am highly confident that linear, raid0 > > and raid1 should be just as fast in 2.4 as in 2.2. > > There are some issues with raid5 that I am looking into. I don't > > know that they affect speed mu

Read performance bad in 2.4.0-test5-pre3

2000-07-25 Thread Nils Rennebarth
I use the 2.4.0-test5-pre3 kernel together with Andre Hedricks ide patch ide.2.4.0-t5-2.all.4c.patch.bz2 and reiserfs The machine is a Athlon 650, equipped with 256MB of RAM. 6 IBM UDMA-66 drives of 46GB each, hanging on three Promise 20262 IDE controllers form a raid5 software raid, reiserfs is

Re: ATA66 Raid

2000-06-06 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 09:48:03AM -0400, Bryan Batchelder wrote: > Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM ATA66 drives. What is the best ATA66 card to buy? > Promise? I have a friend who set up a promise card and he said it kept > crashing on him (once a day) My HPT366 crash the machine hard, relieably and