Re: mail queue's, ext3 data=journal and sync-mount
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 11:54, Philipp Schmidt wrote:
> within this discussion, i got the idea to put an external journal for
> the ext3fs on an raid1-volume the real data on a raid5, hopefully, when
> writing the journal out to the disk having more data to be written an
> once - this would be worth a try but i don't have the hardware to try
> this and bad expirences with software raid5.
Ideally if using data journalling then the transactions would be large enough
to encompass entire stripes and remove most of the RAID-5 penalty for small
writes.
However having an external journal on a RAID-1 array that's used for nothing
else would really help performance. Also make sure that you are using the
fastest part of the disks used for the RAID-1 (use ZCAV to measure it). The
start of the disks seems to always be the fastest for IDE disks, but
apparently SCSI disks sometimes do things differently so a benchmark would be
a good idea.
For best performance investigate some sort of battery-backed RAM disk device.
Another issue of RAID-5 is that when writing a stripe if the power fails it
may write some blocks of the stripe but not all. Having journalled data and
an external journal on a non-RAID-5 should solve that.
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