The article does back up the 1M stripe size with some evidence. I posed the
same question to some other resources and the answer that came back is that
stripe size is going to be more dependent on the disk system you are using
and that there is no single correct stripe size. So some real testing is in
order.
"Ana C. Dent" <anacedent_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:xIHEa.65564$MJ5.19024_at_fed1read03...
> Burton Peltier wrote:
> > I have no experience, but I am also curious about how others are doing
this
> > after recently reading about this because there are more people (in our
> > company) recommending SAME.
> >
> > Sorry if I am creating a discussion you didn't want, but I would like to
> > also hear from those who use SAME to explain a couple of things about
their
> > setup.
> >
> > SAME is suppose to "keep it simple" . It seems it does IF you configure
the
> > disks correctly, but the 1 thing I would still worry about is not
> > multiplexing REDO to 2 different sets of disk spindles. Does anyone
using
> > SAME have a good explaination why this is not potentially a problem.
> >
> > Also, there are a couple of little details like the 1M stripe size and
> > "using the outer edges of the disk platter for frequently accessed
files" ,
> > that are not so simple. Our SysAdmin didn't have any idea how to do the
> > outer edges setup on Sun A1000 arrays. Does SAME require
specific/expensive
> > hardware?
> >
Received on Wed Jun 11 2003 - 07:02:02 CDT
