Hi Steven, On 12/19/2015 09:34 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: > I've always used the whole disk for the RAID6 - as from what I > understand, this gives the best layout for various drives - no matter if > they're 512 or 4096 byte sectors. > > Is this still the case? There's no real advantage other than an itty bit of space. If my case was too small to have a separate mirror for my OS, I'd make three partitions on everything for boot, LVM root & etc (raid10), and bulk storage (raid6). When I have room for the mirrored OS (boot & LVM), I use whole disks for the bulk storage. > I've noticed that my resync speeds on this RAID6 hover around 60Mb/sec - > which I was expecting to be a bit quicker (although I haven't tested > speeds on this array for years). Consider using small chunk sizes for parity raid if there's even the slightest random access usage. See the list archives for the past couple weeks for a long thread on performance. There's many optimization possibilities. Phil -- 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
