The specific question in this thread is just one instance of the more general
question of how is I/O performance determined, how can you understand it, and
how can you plan for and achieve it with determinism? I will attempt to answer
this general question as simply as possible.
I/O throughput
Steven:
>My objective is simple. Fabric attached high end storages like EMC have
>stripe width around 8 Mbyte. Can we not match the SCSI transfer size to
>be in or around the same size?
I’m not sure what you mean. The most common EMC configuration is RAID-1 pairs,
so there is no stripe width t
