On 19 January 2011 00:11, John Robinson <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 18/01/2011 15:59, Igor Podlesny wrote: [...] > You're slightly confusing things. Stripe size and chunk size are different > things, but related. Stripe size = number of data discs * chunk size. Linux [...] Am I? Take a look http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vinum&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.9-RELEASE&format=html Also man mkfs.xfs is recommended too. (I wonder how would ya imagine 4k stripe sized RAID-5. Really worth looking at. :-) > Secondly, as far as I know all Linux filesystems are RAID-aware so know how You're mistaken. There're too many are not. Also, don't forget LVM-2 in middle. > to distribute their superblocks and other metadata evenly across all the > discs, so they've already got any performance improvement that might be had. > > Cheers, > > John. P. S. I think now everyone can see why this letter was intentionally addressed to the author of LSR, not to the list. -- End of message. Next message? -- 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
