On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 08:34, David Greaves wrote: > Thanks > > I'd tried that, but no real change. I started 1t 128k and also tried > 64k, 256k :) (oh, and 1k) > I did some tests a few months ago with bonnie++.. might offer some encouragement (please don't post this to slashdot.. ;) http://spamaps.org/raidtests.php There's a lot of data there, but if you look at the LVM stuff, you might notice that the concurrent performance (having 3 processes hammering the disks in different places instead of just one) was quite good when compared to flat out RAID5. I'll pay 5% performance for manageability any day. :-D _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/