[mythtv-users] Question re: available SATA ports and linux software RAID

Simon Hobson linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Tue Apr 12 14:25:11 UTC 2011


Ian Clark wrote:

>Apologies if my explanation isn't very clear, it makes my head spin a
>bit too I'm afraid.

Quite clear - it's a case of arranging that OS chunks match stripes 
in the array so that when the OS write out a chunk, it will be a full 
stripe of the array and so just be a write to all drives without 
needing to read data first to calculate a new parity block.

Though the technicalities of working out the chunk size in the FS is 
beyond me at the moment !

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