2009-01-16 10:01:42

by Prateek Donni

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Subject: RAID v/s Normal redundant files

Can normal redundant files perform better than RAID configuration.

- Prateek.


2009-01-16 20:52:21

by David Lang

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Subject: Re: RAID v/s Normal redundant files

On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Prateek Donni wrote:

> Can normal redundant files perform better than RAID configuration.

sometimes, it depends on how you have them setup and where the bottlenecks
are in your system.

note that RAID is also supposed to do integrity checking on reads that you
would have to do in userspace with redundant files.