On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:04:47AM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:

> Then why is RAID5 slow and a plain disk isn't (when extracting the same
> pkgsrc tarball)?  I'm trying to find out whether I can use RAID5 or not,
> that's why I'm asking ;)

RAID5 can be slow when you don't write full stripes, but even then
it is usually not much slower than a single drive.

Some RAID controllers are also very slow when you disable the
write cache. Can you verify your setup?


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