Re: RAID stripe size (was: 5.1 RAID5 write performance)

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 05:11:51PM -0500, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:38:07AM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> >     Hello.  I like this explanation.  Can you help clarify by giving a
> > theoretical example?
> > -thanks
> > -Brian
> 
> If sectPerSU is the per-component stripe size, and let's say you have 4 disks
> (components), then I think the total size of a stripe will be 4*sectPerSU.

No.  It will be 3 * sectPerSU.  Parity.

Thor