Re: high throughput storage server?

On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:16:15 -0500 Joe Landman [off-list ref] wrote:

As a tie in to the Linux RAID list, we use md raid for our OS drives 
(SSD pairs), and other utility functions within the unit, as well as 
striping over our hardware accelerated RAIDs.  We would like to use 
non-power of two chunk sizes, but haven't delved into the code as much 
as we'd like to see if we can make this work.

md/raid0 (striping) currently supports non-power-of-two chunk sizes, though
it is a relatively recent addition.
(raid4/5/6 doesn't).

Just FYI.

NeilBrown