Re: 2.0.29 and maximum number of user.

Mike Jagdis (mike@roan.co.uk)
Mon, 15 Sep 1997 09:26:25 +0100 (GMT/BST)


On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> I would think a mirror large enough to require raid0 (for speed) is probably
> large enough that you would really want raid5...

Depends. Raid 5 is less useful if you have heavy write loads or do
not have a write back cache big enough to avoid saturating under
peak write loads. Raid 0, 1 and 5 are all useful in their place.

Mike

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