"Andrew Herdman" <andrew@whine.com> wrote: > From: "Juri Haberland" <list-linux.raid@spoiled.org> >> This way one disk can seek for a file while the other one is transfering >> one. A single read won't be faster but concurrent access to the same >> filesystem will be much faster than on a non-RAID filesystem. > > Does this mean that the md driver is filesystem aware? Or is it just > because i'm using EXT3? How does md know how many file accesses i'm doing? No, AFAIK it's not filesystem aware and it shouldn't be. For a better explanation please look at the mail from Scott Bailey. He obviously looked at the code which I didn't... Cheers, Juri -- Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
