On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:20:02PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:02:52PM -0400, Alex Turner wrote: > > Although I for one have yet to see a controller that actualy does this (I > > believe software RAID on linux doesn't either). > > Linux' software RAID does. See earlier threads for demonstrations. The real question: will it balance within a single thread? Cheaper raid setups will balance individual requests between devices, but good ones should be able to service a single request from both devices (assuming it's reading more than whatever the stripe size is). -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
