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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.cc.sunysb.edu!vernick From: vernick@cs.sunysb.edu (Michael Vernick) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD do disk striping? Date: 2 Aug 1995 12:26:47 GMT Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3vnqu7$rme@abel.cc.sunysb.edu> References: <3vi4jb$c5t@owl.und.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: sbgrad9.cs.sunysb.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ewan McPhail (chops@kestrel.ugrd.und.ac.za) wrote: : Hi all, here's hoping someone can help me. : Simply put, can FreeBSD (2.0.5 R) perform disk striping? : I'm interested in doing this to take some of the load off a straining : drive (more heads = less of a strain). No. For small normal NFS type reads, it does not pay to stripe data across multiple drives. Instead of paying for 1 seek and rotation per access on 1 drive, you now have N seeks and N rotations. (Assuming the drive spindles are not synchronized.) Why not put different file systems on different drives to balance out the load some. -- Michael Vernick vernick@sbcs.sunysb.edu Dept. Of Computer Science @ SUNY SB (516)-632-8434 Stony Brook, NY 11794