Re: How to configure 36 disks ?

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:59:47 +0200
> Raz <raziebe@xxxxxxxxx> écrivait:
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>> 1. redundancy. fair. less likely three disks will break in a single
>> raid 2. performance. bad.
>> 3. modularity. yes. grows
>> 4. Size 24TB
>
> I don't understand why you'd have a bad performance here. I usually
> notice a very slight difference between LVM and linux-raid raid0 in all
> practical benchmarks. Did you use LVM striping capability? You may
> have to adjust readahead (using blockdev --setra) on each
> device /dev/dm-X and /dev/md-X) to achieve optimal performance.
Problem i have with performance is that once you *add* to a active
volume a new PE, you lose striping in the sense that you cannot tell
where the IO is directed to ( which disk). My implementation relies on
this fact. If you know I am wrong please correct me.

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