Re: Volume Managers in Linux

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 19:03:45 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, MOLNAR Ingo wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Shawn Leas wrote:
>
> > Well... Software RAID performance suxorz anyway, but I absolutely
>
> ??? a claim backed by what benchmark numbers?

People just assume.. :)

First off, they miss that raid is more then just raid5.. Raid 1 and Raid 0
require virutally no more effort then normal.. And raid 5 just requires
Xors which are single instructions, you're memory bound..

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