Subject: Re: Stripe size for RAID-1 swap
To: Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org>
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/13/2001 17:05:55
On Wednesday, 12 December 2001 at 20:21:39 -0800, Johnny Lam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 	This past week has been very educational for me concerning RAID
> issues.  I have just one last question about RAID: how does one determine
> the optimal stripe size for a RAID-1 swap partition?  I'm not aware of
> benchmarks to determine this.

I'd think that setting the stripe size equal to the page size would be
the most logical.  I'm not sure that striping swap buys you anything.

Greg
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