[tech] Meito

[Grahame Bowland]

On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 14:13, Duncan Sargeant wrote:
> Grahame Bowland wrote on Fri July 11, at 13:47 +0800:
> > Yes, backup to mussel was the plan. Linux will suck less because it
> > won't be using pio to talk to the disks - we're getting horrid
> > performance out of the thing.
> > 
> > We *should* be able to get 30-40Mb/sec reads from it, we're actually
> > getting 1Mb/sec or so. Even without async writes, it's still going to be
> > better under Linux.
> 
> After FS overheads, how do you get 30-40MB/s out of IDE on linux? 
> I've only managed something in the region of 10, except when doing a
> raidhotadd to a mirrored set, which of course is a linear copy.

I was talking about linear reads :-) It's somewhat lower than that in
real life, however it should be much better than 1Mb/s.