> nearly as fast as the underlying media, and for many reads, faster reads
> than any of the underlying media could provide on their own...  
> (RAID 5 has it's own problems with "small writes", but that can sometimes 
> be overcome with appropriate RAID and filesystem tuning...  of course a lot
raid's track should be equal size to stripe i think.

> of this depends on the filesystem workload, but I certainly don't agree with
> your claim that "most-accessed stuff should be on non-RAID partitions"

should be on RAID-1
> in the general case...)
> 
> Later...
> 
> Greg Oster
> 
>