On Jun 18, 2008 20:14 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > If I am using a Hardware RAID (3ware) with 6 disks and I decide to go with > RAID 5 with stripe of 128KB (default on my controller) and no spare. > By reading documentation I should do 128/4 as my stride size when creating > the file system. I am not understanding how this number works and what > exactly stride does. Can someone care to explain this to me? The "stride" option changes the location of some of the filesystem metadata so that it isn't all located on the same disk. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
