[Gllug] LVM and RAID reshuffling advice

[Anthony Newman]

t.clarke wrote:
> Software RAID5 will, I believe, be quite CPU intensive compared with simple
> disc-mirroring,  as parity has to be calculated in addition to writing extra
> data to disc.

It's surprisingly lightweight really; the main throughput problem occurs 
because of the extra writes caused by the parity information which will 
be by far the dominant factor for machines with few disks attached.


Ant
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