Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > Al Boldi <a1426z@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > But what still isn't clear, why can't raid1 use something like the > > raid10 offset=2 mode? > > RAID1 has equal data on all mirrors, so sooner or later you have to seek > somewhere - no matter how you layout the data on each mirror. Don't underestimate the effects mere layout can have on multi-disk array performance, despite it being highly hw dependent. The best approach would probably involve a user-configurable layout table, to tune it to the specific hw. Thanks! -- Al - 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
