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.

-- 
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