Quoting <20000619111530.W3710 at digiserve.ie>
by "John P. Looney (Kate)" <jplooney-ilug at online.ie>:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 11:38:42PM +0100, David Murphy mentioned:
> > > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, David Murphy wrote:
> > > > No. Sun's software RAID product (DiskSuite) will round-robin reads
> > > > over both sides of a mirror.
> > > which doesn't buy you as much as striping reads which is what raid5
> > > does.
> > If you only ever run one process at a time, definitely, otherwise, we
> > don't yet know who they compare.
>> Which is why you try RAID 1+0 ;)
Obviously, any serious setup is striped mirrors all round 8)
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