[ ... ] > For metadata intensive workloads like yours you would be much > better using a non-striping raid, e.g. concatentation and > mirroring instead of raid 5 or raid 6. I know this has a cost > in terms of "wasted" space, but for IOPs bound workload the > difference is dramatic. The problem with parity RAIDs and small-write-IO intensive workloads is not striping as such, it is with *large* stripes. That is a detail that matters quite a lot. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
