Re: Linux RAID Partition Offset 63 cylinders / 30% performance hit?
From: Gabor Gombas <hidden>
Date: 2007-12-20 10:33:56
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 04:01:43PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
From that setup it seems simple, scrap the partition table and use the disk device for raid. This is what we do for all data storage disks (hw raid) and sw raid members.
And _exactly_ that's when you run into the alignment problem. The common
SW RAID case (first partitioning, then building RAID arrays from
individual partitions) does not suffer from this issue.
Gabor
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