[Gllug] Production system - Linux 2.4.24, LVM and cciss

[Martin A. Brooks]

At 16:32 11/01/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>Have been through the various RAID scenarios and RAID 1+0 has been the
>plan from the start; RAID 5 is too slow.

Almost by definition RAID5 is faster for both reading and writing than 
RAID0+1.  In cases where RAID5 is actually slower, it often means that the 
system was poorly thought out.  For example, small numbers of larger disks 
where larger numbers of smaller disks would been appropriate.



Martin A. Brooks, Clues Ltd.
http://www.clues.ltd.uk/

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