Jon Nelson put forth on 2/1/2011 7:50 AM: > The performance will not be the same because. Whenever possible, md > reads from the outermost portion of the disk -- theoretically the > fastest portion of the disk (by 2 or 3 times as much as the inner > tracks) -- and in this way raid10,f2 can actually be faster than > raid0. Faster in what regard? I assume you mean purely sequential read, and not random IOPS. The access patterns of the vast majority of workloads are random, so I don't see much real world benefit, if what you say is correct. This might benefit MythTV or similar niche streaming apps. -- Stan -- 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
