> the best i got is: > if you want raid1 you will run a system like databases, or multi > thread systems, each thread operating a disk > if have a system with continous read/write (dvr, stream, etc) raid10 > far is the best Thank you for the respose, but I'm a little confused Can you clarify? I'm not sure which of three things you're suggesting. Are you talking about the actual data layout, or the Linux driver? Obviously, if I added disks and striped across them, sequential performance would go up. This is an actual RAID-10 layout. But it's not useful unless I buy more disks. But there's also the case that I can use the kernel raid10 driver with an n2 layout. This has the same disk layout as raid1, but might have different preformance. Is that what you mean? In that case, it would be nice to either copy the improvements to the raid1 driver, or make the raid10 driver able to handle raid1 arrays and throw out the raid1 driver. Finally, a third option is that you're talking about the raid10 driver, but with a far or offset layout. I haven't played with those. -- 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
