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 > > > > -- > john r pierce 37N 122W > somewhere on the middle of the left coast > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos