[Veritas-bu] Raid5 or mirrored?
2001-11-02 13:03:28
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[Veritas-bu] Raid5 or mirrored? |
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wei AT colltech DOT com (Michael Wei) |
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Fri, 2 Nov 2001 12:03:28 -0600 (CST) |
Software based RAID5 has particularly poor write performance when the write
size is small, since the RAID5 has to do a read, adjust parity and a
writeback. Unfortuantely small writes are what Netbackup mostly does in its
index directories.
So, don't do it unless space and budget is your most pressing issue.
Mirror it.
> From veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu Fri Nov 2 09:46:55 2001
>
> I'm setting up a file system for /usr/openv using volume manager with
> four disks, and I'm wondering if it would be better to make it a raid5
> system, or a concatenated mirror. If I use mirroring, then my disk
> space is limited to that of the two disks, but with raid5, I get an
> extra disk space. For performance reasons, what would be the best
> layout of disks?
>
> thanks
> robert
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