> OK, I think the normal hype on raid10 is to use the far layout for its > better striping performance. Wasn't f2 supposed to improve *reads*? Maybe I've got it backwards. > Are the disks SATA disks or SCSI disks? PATA. It's a how-to-best-utilize-some-older-stuff project. > you could probably get some more performance by moving 2 disks > to the PATA controller of the motherboard, The board is newish and has just one PATA channel and that's explicitly for CDROM use. > I think it is interesting that your 3ware controller is not maxing out > the PCI bus! With 6 disks of nominally 60 MB/s the theoretical max is > 360 MB/s. So the 3ware controller really has IO bandwidth available > which it is not getting close on putting to use. Yes, that's the juicy part :) > What is the specifics for the 3ware controller? http://www.3ware.com/products/parallel_ata.asp It's the 8port version. Maybe their newer controllers are better but this one frankly sucks at anything but raid1 and maybe raid0 ... Cheers, C. -- 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
