Michal Soltys writes: : Dean S. Messing wrote: : > : > Also (as I asked) what is the downside? From what I have read, random : > access reads will take a hit. Is this correct? : > : > Thanks very much for your help! : > : > Dean : > : : Besides bonnie++ you should probably check iozone. It will allow you to test : very specific settings quite thoroughly. Although with current : multi-gigabyte memory systems the test runs may take a bit time. : : http://www.iozone.org/ : : There's nice introduction to the progam there, along with some example graph : results. Thanks very much, Michal. I'll have a look. Dean - 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