Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934469AbZAPUwV (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:52:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754976AbZAPUwG (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:52:06 -0500 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:50307 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754725AbZAPUwF (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:52:05 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:55:11 -0800 (PST) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Prateek Donni cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RAID v/s Normal redundant files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 583 Lines: 14 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/