Subject: Re: results from playing around with the new dirpref code
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-perform
Date: 09/03/2001 13:32:44
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:27:28AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 01:15:49PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
>
> > of our "logical disk" type drivers to make the cylinders themselves bigger
> > (for example, RAID should use a *multiple of the stripe size*, not the
> > stripe size, as its cylinder size) or we can't avoid the problem there at
> > all.
>
> stripe size * number of components?
No, that's what we do now. It should be target size ROUNDED to the nearest
multiple of stripe size * number of components, which would be much larger
than what we currently get.
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Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
And now he couldn't remember when this passion had flown, leaving him so
foolish and bewildered and astray: can any man?
William Styron