Charles Swiger wrote: > On Oct 25, 2004, at 3:49 PM, Scott Long wrote: > [ ... ] > >>> Your position is certainly reasonable: if a storage system is not >>> reliable, how fast it performs is something of a moot point. :-) >>> However, this being said, a RAID-0 implementation needs to improve >>> performance compared with using a bare drive if it is to be useful. >> >> >> Well, RAID-0 is a special case =-) > > > Sort of, yeah. It's hard to make generalizations about RAID performance > without considering each mode as a separate case...in which case, your > generalizations aren't very general. 8-) > >> That said, putting discrete RAID >> classes into the GEOM layer is something of a new adventure, so I'm >> not surprised to hear about performance problems, even in RAID-0. >> There might be extra data copies or path latencies that weren't planned >> for or expected. It's definitely something to look at. But it's also >> a very new subsystem, so it would be unfair to judge FreeBSD performance >> with it. > > > Oh, I'm not trying to throw stones your way, or at GEOM, or anywhere else. > > By and large, you would be right to claim that RAID generally performs > less well than direct access to bare drives. This conclusion is driven > as much by how frequently RAID-5 gets used compared with the less-common > RAID modes as anything else, however. Someone who uses RAID-0 or > RAID-1,0 modes really does expect to see a performance improvement. > RAID-0 yes, RAID-10 no, at least not for software RAID. The machine winds up having to transfer the same data twice across the PCI bus, twice through the controller, etc. If the controller is on a simple PCI-32/33 bus then it will quickly become saturated. Anyways, having spent a good part of my career with RAID, I find that I only use RAID-0 when I want to test system bandwidth, not when I want to store data. YMMV =-) ScottReceived on Mon Oct 25 2004 - 18:47:23 UTC
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