On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Leigh Dyer <leigh@eclinic.com.au> wrote:
> Glyn Astill wrote:
> > Bonie++ benchmarks below.
> >
> > I believe the the Perc 5/i Raid 10 mode is actually a span of mirrors, rather than the expected stripe of mirrors
weshould expect from 1+0, and that this is the reason for the shitty performance.
> >
>
> Could you build three RAID-1 mirrors on the device, and then stripe that
> using software RAID-0?
That can be a useful option. You'd have to test it on your setup, but
RAID-0 is dead simple, so letting the kernel handle the RAID-0 part is
pretty low cost. Especially if you've got lots of CPU power, like
many of today's servers.
