Re: RAID5 internal log question

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 23:04 15-2-2002 +0200, Mihai RUSU wrote:
>Hi
>
> From the XFS FAQ and other threads on this list I understand that is
>recommended to have the log of an XFS partition out of a RAID5. Is that
>performance impact that bad also with hardware RAID ?
>Because its rather strange to make that external log reside out of the
>RAID with hardware RAID (I have to reboot and use the BIOS configuration
>tool to setup another logical device which should not be RAID5 just only
>for the XFS log).

Just with software raid. Most hardware raid controllers have cache onboard 
which will make it far less noticeable.


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Seth
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