On Mon September 28 2009, adfas asd wrote: > I am puzzled by why write-mostly. Ostensibly Gb ethernet is supposed to > nearly equal the data transfer rate of the controller cards, and be many > times the speed of actual data transfer from the drives. > > So shouldn't a NAS have plenty of bandwidth to accommodate most any drive > operations? My GbE lan gets about 90MiB/s, my pcie sata card has shown upwards of 400MiB/s. I haven't done full tests on the sata card yet, but it clearly is able to more than saturate a single GbE connection. > I will be setting up a small high-perf drive for / (including database) so > the only data on the array will be /home (including large videos). > > Seems like there is no need to specify write-mostly? > > --- On Sun, 9/27/09, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In his situation (assuming he doesn't > > take my advice and separate > > the remote system entirely), wouldn't he be better served > > to create a RAIDn > > array on both systems and then create a RAID1 from the > > local and NAS array > > with the write mostly option? > > -- > 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 > -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@xxxxxxx -- 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
