I'm a Linux developer at LLNL and am currently working on squeezing as
much performance out of a couple of RAID systems on Alpha Linux as I
possibly can. Right now I'm working on getting some QLogic QLA2200
going as well as a rack of 8 Ciprico Rimfire 7010's going. I guess
the performance numbers under Irix are around 50MB/s writes per
controller and 90MB/s reads. I'm hoping to attain this performance or
better with the rawio patches. So my question is, is this stuff still
being worked on and if so, are there plans on working it into the
kernel? I think I saw that Steven Tweedie's work is already in the
2.3.xx tree, what sort of difference in performance can I expect
between the SGI changes and the work that Steven Tweedie has done?
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