Subject: Re: Terrible tar performance on RAID 0 filesystem
To: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 03/14/2001 12:35:15
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:23:02PM -0600, Greg Oster wrote:
> Sure... we can go through the details off-line, but basically just:
> 1) archive the stuff you want to keep
> 2) build a new disklabel w/ larger values for sectors/track and tracks/cylinder.
> The ones I suggested before might work reasonably well.
> 3) apply that disklabel to raid0
> 4) newfs /dev/rraid0e
> 5) copy the data back on...
Is
:dt=RAID:se#512:ns#62:nt#64:sc#3968:nc#22699:\
much better than
:dt=RAID:se#512:ns#62:nt#16:sc#992:nc#90796:\
or should I relabel and format my RAID1 before populating it with real data?
I won't be able to do that again too easily after putting some 20 GB of data
on the disk..
Thanks,
-jm