[CentOS] Ideal RAID-1 Stripe Size for IMAP Server ?
Svavar Örn Eysteinsson
svavar at fiton.is
Thu Feb 21 11:49:44 UTC 2013
Oks. thanks allot.
I'l go with the defaults.
Best R,
Svavar
On 21.2.2013, at 11:21, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 2/21/2013 3:09 AM, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:
>> I'm currently configuring a brand new email server(IMAP) which will run
>> CentOS 6.3 x64.
>>
>> So lots of files on the data volume.
>>
>> I'm confused about stripe size for my data volume.
>> I'm using 2x500GB for OS in RAID1 and 2x2TB SAS for DATA in RAID1 which is
>> hosted on a HP Smart Array P420 Controller with 1GB in Cache/Battery Backed Up.
>> Both these array's are on the P420 controller.
>>
>> The initial configuring from Array Configuration Tools gives me 256K in Strip Size.
>> On both array's.
>>
>> What would be ideal for the data volume, and or the OS array ?
>
> stripe size isn't important on a raid1 mirror, as both disks contain the
> same data. I usually leave that set to whatever defaults unless I have
> good reasons to change it for raid 5, 6, 1+0 volumes
>
>
>
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