raid5 can not be that smart. :P ming On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 15:16 -0400, Dan Christensen wrote: > bus/controller. For example, RAID-5 could just do sequential > reads from 3 of the 4 drives, and use the parity chunks it > reads to reconstruct the data chunks from the fourth drive. > If I do parallel reads from 3 of my 4 disks, I can still get > 106MB/s. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html