[no cc:s please, thanks] On Sunday 12 September 2004 16.41, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:35, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
> Machines that can handle such an IO load have faster CPUs. So for any
> but the very biggest machines there is no chance of CPU performance being
> a problem for RAID-5.
You certainly have more experience than I - I was thinking about machines
where the CPU is already heavily loaded by userspace tasks, where the
additional load from RAID5 might be a poblem. Don't know for certain,
though.
[me being silly]
> If you read a single block from RAID-5 it should only hit a single disk.
Of course, big thinko. Forget what I said.
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