R: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-08-02 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
IL PROTECTED]> To: Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 5:43 AM Subject: Re: raid and 2.4 kernels > On Thursday July 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:12:47PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote: > &

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

2000-07-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday July 27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 lo

RE: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-27 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Danilo Godec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 12:22 AM > To: Neil Brown > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: raid and 2.4 kernels > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > > > If raid on 2.4

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

RE: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-27 Thread Danilo Godec
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > If raid on 2.4 is fast than raid in 2.2, we say "great". > If it is slower, we look at the no-raid numbers. > If no-raid on 2.4 is slow than no-raid on 2.2, we say "oh dear, the > disc subsystem is slower on 2.4", and point the finger appropriately. > If n

RE: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-27 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday July 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Could you be a little more specific? Speed comparisons on disk access? > Then you can't compare RAID with no RAID effectively. You could compare the > speed of 2.2/2.4 RAID, and 2.2/2.4 no RAID, but comparisons across would > seem to be meaning

RE: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-26 Thread Gregory Leblanc
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 7:41 PM > To: Anton > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: raid and 2.4 kernels > > On Wednesday July 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > do the kernel develo

Re: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-26 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday July 26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > do the kernel developers responsible for RAID read this list? I would be > interested in seeing some constructive discussion about the reports of > degraded RAID performance in the 2.4 kernels. It is particularly > disappointing given that SMP app

Re: raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-26 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Anton wrote: > do the kernel developers responsible for RAID read this list? I would be > interested in seeing some constructive discussion about the reports of > degraded RAID performance in the 2.4 kernels. It is particularly > disappointing given that SMP appears to be a

raid and 2.4 kernels

2000-07-26 Thread Anton
do the kernel developers responsible for RAID read this list? I would be interested in seeing some constructive discussion about the reports of degraded RAID performance in the 2.4 kernels. It is particularly disappointing given that SMP appears to be a lot better in 2.4 vs 2.2 -- ai http:/