# # Latest Version # -------------- # http://www.1U-Raid5.net/ChunkStride/chunksize.txt # # # 11-Jan-02 amo Date-of-Birth # # # --------------------------------------- # What should the value be for chunk-size ?? # --------------------------------------- # # Is it used only for raid0 and raid1 ??? # # Raid0: # data is read from disks in "chunk-size" bytes ( say 16Kbytes ) # even if your file is only 100 bytes # # From Patches/raid-2.2.14-B1 # # == # == chunk-size has to be a power of 2 and multiples of PAGE_SIZE # == # From http://www.tux.org/pub/devel/md/md-FAQ # # The chunk size is the amount of data contiguous on the virtual # device that is also contiguous on the physical device. # # # Chunk and blocksize for raid0 # http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-7.html # # Some Chunksize Explainations # http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/57/1996/12/0/83375/ # # # end of file