On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:50:05AM -0600, Greg Oster wrote:
> Richard Rauch writes:
 [...]
> > 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.

(nod)

Okay, then.  I think that short of fiddling around with
LFS on RAID 0 (which I expect to work out about the same
as LFS on ccd), or a single-cable approach, I'm probably
about set on this.

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