Re: problem with large inserts

Chris Angelico wrote:

>> I never heard of a raidle. What is that?

> Google showed up this:
>
> http://www.techrepublic.com/article/non-standard-raid-levels-primer-raid-1e/6181460
>
> Seems it's "raid 10 for odd numbers of disks".

Ah, thanks! I missed it when I searched because I mis-scanned it
as raidle instead of raid1e.

RAID 1E would be less likely to be misinterpreted.

So, it should have write performance somewhere between a pair of
drives in RAID 1 and four drives in RAID 10, assuming the
controller hadles it well. I'm still curious to see raw I/O numbers
for random and sequential scan against the array.

-Kevin