Jens Bäckman wrote:
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> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> wrote:
>> Results:
>>
>> http://home.comcast.net/~jpiszcz/raid/20080528/raid-levels.html
>> http://home.comcast.net/~jpiszcz/raid/20080528/raid-levels.txt
> 
> Either the RAID 1 read speed must be wrong, or something is odd in the
> Linux implementation. There's six drives that can be used for reading
> at the same time, as they contain the very same data. 63MB/s
> sequential looks like what you would get from a single drive.

The test is a single thread reading one block at a time, so this is not 
surprising.  If you get this doing multi-megabyte readahead, or with 
several threads, something is very wrong.

-- Chris
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