IDEA: Shortening boot-time
Russell Coker
russell at coker.com.au
Thu Jul 29 06:21:42 UTC 2004
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:13, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv at redhat.com> wrote:
> if you really want you can get 2x but it involves a disk-layout change
> (unfortunately the linux raid1 layout isn't designed for getting > 1x
> throughput for single threaded reads)
> small change... but.. well the pain of a layout change is probably not
> worth it
What is the change required to Linux RAID-1?
Why does disk layout even matter? If a test involves only reads then it
shouldn't matter where the data is, for two processes doing reads at the same
time the performance should be about double with two disks regardless of
layout.
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