Richard Rauch writes:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:11:15AM -0600, Greg Oster wrote:
> > Richard Rauch writes:
>  [...]
> > > Then when I went to try vinum (missing/unconfigured device,
> > > even after building a kernel with vinum support), and RAID, I left
> > > the disklabels alone (1648 offsets).
> > 
> > Just a sec... the disklabel on wd1/wd2 or the disklabel on raid0/ccd0?
> > It's the disklabel on raid0 that I care most about - the labels on 
> > wd1/wd2 don't matter. :) 
> 
> Oh.  raid0a is offset at 0, and uses the whole volume.  That was
> the default.

Ok, good.  The concern is that if it wasn't stripe-aligned, a given 
64K (or 32K) write might actually span across disks/stripes, 
requiring about 2x the overhead and 2x the number of IOs.

Later...

Greg Oster