On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 14:22, Justin Coffey wrote:
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> > The alignment issue is mostly software raid5 specific. The ability to
> > better align the writes will help on other configs to a lesser extent.
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> Thanks. We're in the design phase of a new product and it's likely to use
> some sort of largish NAS box. Most likely raid 5'ed. Initially (due to
> cost) we'll probably do software raid but we'll want to move to hardware
> level at some point. I guess that means ReiserFS for us for now?
Depends when you need the performance speed up... I can send you code
now, it works most of the time, I just have a couple of anomalies to
chase.
Steve
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