Scott Silva wrote: > Steve Bergman spake the following on 9/13/2006 8:21 AM: >> OK. Now I'm a bit confused. Raid 1 read performance is not what I >> expected. md does not stripe reads in raid-1. As can be clearly seen on my raid-1 setup on two ide drives: [root at balrog ~]# hdparm -t /dev/hde /dev/hde: Timing buffered disk reads: 136 MB in 3.01 seconds = 45.17 MB/sec [root at balrog ~]# hdparm -t /dev/hdg /dev/hdg: Timing buffered disk reads: 126 MB in 3.03 seconds = 41.52 MB/sec [root at balrog ~]# hdparm -t /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Timing buffered disk reads: 124 MB in 3.01 seconds = 41.24 MB/sec [root at balrog ~]# -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: morten at mortent.org //IM: Cartoon at jabber.no morten.torstensen at gmail.com And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever.