FreeBSD 5.3b7and poor ata performance

fandino fandino at ng.fadesa.es
Tue Oct 26 08:48:14 PDT 2004


Charles Swiger wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2004, at 2:29 PM, Scott Long wrote:
>> Some cases can give you desirable performance increases as a side effect,
>> but that is not the primary goal.

For greedy applications like video processing.

> Disagree.  Why else would you use RAID-0 striping?

speed?

> [ If you simply want to create a logical volume bigger than the size of 
> a physical drive, you can use concatenation instead. ]

because it doesn't split the load over disks and you get busy disks
and idle disks.



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