[rescue] does this guy know his stuff?

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Mike Meredith wrote:

> > I am dealing with doing software RAID5 on Sol9 with 3 or 4 disks.  I
>
> I'm sure you already know this, but to get performance you're starting
> from the wrong place. You'll probably get a far greater performance
> boost by switching to striping and mirroring than any other tweaking
> (except to the application).

I prefer RAID 5, rather than 0+1, becuase it's more space-efficient.

Peace...  Sridhar