[CentOS] Harware vs Kernel RAID (was Re: External SATA enclosures: SiI3124 and CentOS 5?)
Chan Chung Hang Christopher
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Wed Jun 3 15:25:54 UTC 2009
>> See my reply to nate. If you are using boards with 12GB of cache,
>> software raid is not even on the radar.
>>
>
> True, but I feel an important point is being missed here.
>
> In order to avoid a lot of the random I/O file systems use page cache
> to combine I/O operations and transaction logs to log it sequentially
> before committing it in the background later but the ability of the
> disks to handle a large amount of random I/O is also a big factor as
> if the commits can't execute fast enough the log will not empty enough
> to make it perform, so then you need an ever bigger log.
>
>
/me shrugs. It is not as if a hardware raid card is the only solution.
One can try external journaling devices for the filesystem like a
Gigabyte I-RAM drive or a UMEM card and still use md devices. Although I
would not bother with a software raid setup if I had lots of disk arrays
I suspect.
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