On Tuesday, 27 March 2001 at  9:39:36 +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 20 March 2001 at 11:11:44 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote:
>>> [Lengthy email, bear with me please, it is quite interesting.
>>> This box averages 30.0 load with no problems.]
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Average file size is about 4K.  /home/bbsusers* is on a vinum
>>> stripe'd volume with 3 Ultra160 9G 10000RPM drives on sym0 at stripe
>>> size 256K,  Greg: I know this should be a prime number,
>>
>> No, there's no requirement for it to be a prime number.  The only
>> problem is that with 32 MB cylinder groups and a power of two stripe
>> size and subdisk count, you end up with all the superblocks on one
>> subdisk, which is a performance issue.  Choose the stripe size so that
>> the superblocks are roughly evenly distributed.
>
> A performance issue ?  Surely you've misspelt ``reliability'' ?

I don't see a reliability issue here.

Greg
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