Re: Performance with 2 AMD/Opteron 2.6Ghz and 8gig

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 10:20:02PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 04:02:52PM -0400, Alex Turner wrote:
> > Although I for one have yet to see a controller that actualy does this (I
> > believe software RAID on linux doesn't either).
>
> Linux' software RAID does. See earlier threads for demonstrations.

The real question: will it balance within a single thread?

Cheaper raid setups will balance individual requests between devices,
but good ones should be able to service a single request from both
devices (assuming it's reading more than whatever the stripe size is).
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