Subject: Re: Multiple RAID1 partions on same disks
To: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: current-users
Date: 08/30/2002 11:26:50
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 08:43:29PM -0600, Greg Oster wrote:
>  [..]
> > 	Would there be any chance it could degrade the performance of
> > 	the system?
> 
> I've not done any real benchmarking on exactly that, but it shouldn't be
> any worse than partitioning a disk without the RAID. 

Could't there be an issue with parity rebuild or reconstruction ?
raidframe will do this in background, slowing down when there are other
I/O going through the RAID, but will it include I/O not going through the
RAID for its computations ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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