IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 17:56, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:43:34PM -0600, Mark Lane wrote:
> > I agree that in certain situations you may get better twice the performance 
> > may have to do more seeking than two separate drives but on a benchmark test 
> > like bonnie++ the average is not going to be twice a single drive. And he was 
> > talking about benchmarks. 
> 
> With dual PCI 64/66 cards you'll get about 1.5 * single drive it appears from
> some quick playing

if you really want you can get 2x but it involves a disk-layout change 
(unfortunately the linux raid1 layout isn't designed for getting > 1x
throughput for single threaded reads)
small change... but.. well the pain of a layout change is probably not
worth it
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