On Sunday January 27, russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/01/msg00921.html > > Are they regarded as a stable feature? If so I'd like to see distributions > supporting them by default. I've started a discussion in Debian on this > topic, see the above URL for details. Yes, it is regarded as stable. However it can be expected to reduce write throughput. A reduction of several percent would not be surprising, and depending in workload it could probably be much higher. It is quite easy to add or remove a bitmap on an active array, so making it a default would probably be fine providing it was easy for an admin to find out about it and remove the bitmap is they wanted the extra performance. NeilBrown - 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
