On Feb 3, 2008 5:29 PM, Janek Kozicki <janek_listy@xxxxx> wrote: > Neil Brown said: (by the date of Mon, 4 Feb 2008 10:11:27 +1100) > > wow, thanks for quick reply :) > > > > 3. Another thing - would raid10,far=2 work when three drives are used? > > > Would it increase the read performance? > > > > Yes. > > is far=2 the most I could do to squeeze every possible MB/sec > performance in raid10 on three discs ? In my opinion, yes. It has sequential read characteristics that place at /or better than/ raid0. Writing is slower, about the speed of a single disk, give or take. The other two raid10 layouts (near and offset) are very close in performance to each other - nearly identical for reading/writing. -- Jon - 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
