On 2010-06-25 4:36 AM, Linda A. Walsh wrote: > Doug Ledford wrote: >> Correction: all reads benefit from larger chunks now a days. The only >> reason to use smaller chunks in the past was to try and get all of >> your drives streaming data to you simultaneously, which effectively >> made the total aggregate throughput of those reads equal to the >> throughput of one data disk times the number of data disks in the >> array. With modern drives able to put out 100MB/s sustained by >> themselves, we don't really need to do this any more, .... > I would regard 100MB/s as moderately slow. For files in my > server cache, my Win7 machine reads @ 110MB/s over the network, My understanding is Gigabit ethernet is only capable of topping out at about 30MB/s, so, I'm curious what kind of network you have? 10GBe? Fiber? -- Best regards, Charles _______________________________________________ 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/