On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> I could only find the 6 disk RAID5 numbers in the archives that were run with
>> bonnie++1.03. Have you run the RAID10 tests since? Did you settle on 6 disk
>> RAID5 or 2xRAID1 + 4XRAID10?
>
> Why not 6 drive raid 10? IIRC you need 4 to start RAID 10 but only pairs
> after that.
A valid question. Does the caching raid controller negate the desire to
separate pg_xlog from PGDATA?
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