Re: RAID-1 can (sometimes) be 3x faster than RAID-10

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Am 30.05.19 um 19:12 schrieb keld@xxxxxxxxxx:
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 06:01:29PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
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>>
>> Am 30.05.19 um 17:58 schrieb keld@xxxxxxxxxx:
>>> so you will not get performance gains if you read one file sequentially in raid10,near
>>> nor md raid1, reading 2 different files concurrently theoretcally should give the same
>>> speed in md raid1 an mdraid10,near - but I think raid10,near only reads from one device.
>>> so it is a driver issue.
>>
>> but why?
>>
>> you have two simple mirrors, read from both disks, one half from mirror1
>> and the second from mirror2
> 
> if you have one file and you read every other block from each mirror then you loose
> a lot of reading capacity.
> 
> say you read block 0 and 2 from mirror1 and block 1 and 3 from mirror2, then
> after reading block 0 from mirror1 you have to skip block 1 on mirror1 to read block 2,
> given that the disk is rotating anyway to advance to block 2.  you could just as well read block 1 from mirror1
> so all your reading frem mirror2 is unnessecary, and you could use mirror2 for other things.
> 
> it is a matter o the disk drivers strategy.

on a SSD RAID? seriously?



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