On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 03:41:35PM -0500, Mike Eldridge wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 03:19:05PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> > Well, Duh! I should have seen that first time around, I get into the
> > habit of reading my email too fast!
> >
> > We may be able to fix some things, if we can remake the filesystem.
> > First you need to know the stripe unit of your raid - we can feed
> > this into XFS to make it do stripe aligned allocations. This has
> > to be done by hand on linux. Take a look at the mkfs.xfs man page
> > and the section on sunit and swidth options. Probably bump your log size
> > up from the default somewhat, not sure how it ended up as 1839
> > that is scary.
>
> RAID5 on this card offers only a 64K stripe size. however, i will be
And is also notorious for mediocre performance. It appears to have been
implemented largely as a checkbox feature.
Doing unaligned writes to a hardware RAID device can still be a problem,
if the hardware RAID device can't at least cache enough data to coalesce
writes up to its stripe size; one does, from time to time, see cheap RAID
hardware in PCs that has exactly this problem, though IIRC there is another
cause for the Escalade's crummy RAID5 performance.
Thor
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