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But, Jeff, if your run time went from 38 seconds to 5 minutes, would they
complain?
Is that what's going to happen? Everything will be slower by a factor of 7
or 8 *times* (38 seconds to 300 seconds)? Seriously, or are you saying it
for effect?
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:44 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Everything is relative. Many of us on this list will go on and on about
how much of a performance dog a 3 drive raid set is on scsi disks. As
recently stated: PA-THE-TIC! However one poster put on here (some years
ago) that these people were coming from a S/36 and wouldn't really know
how fast the machine could go. They would be impressed with what they
got.
But, Jeff, if your run time went from 38 seconds to 5 minutes, would they
complain?
Rob Berendt
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Dept 1600
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From: Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 03/20/2014 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: RAID 6 rebuild time - can I slash it?
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
In various discussions regarding disk and performance and RAID 6 going
back
many months, posters keep hammering away on the performance of RAID 6. The
most important thing to us is protection.
Last October, Dr Franken posted this:
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201310/msg00754.html
I assume that's still true.
Regarding our performance, we have no performance issues, whatsoever. I
mean none. No one *ever* complains about response time or how long a
batch
job takes on the System i. Ever.
As an example, we're a food distribution warehouse. The orders to be
delivered today were staged yesterday and then are run all-at-once in
batch. The operator took the option at @4:35pm. This processed every
order against inventory, generated all picking labels, the invoices, and
all documentation needed by the night crew to load the trucks. This
entire
process took 38 seconds. This is very typical. The actual *print* time
for those labels and invoices was obviously longer, but the job was done.
This is followed by running a ton of reports (some hardcopy and some PDF)
in a follow up batch job. This takes less than 2 minutes.
The above is our most complex and important business hours task, and it's
less than 3 minutes total. Should I be worried about performance?
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Wilson Jonathan
<piercing_male@xxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 08:33 -0400, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:out.
Sue,
Raid 6 would mean you'd have to lose at least two drives to be wiped
lostRaid 6 with hot spare means you'd have to lose at least three drives,
right?
Raid 6 means you can loose 2 working disks, but can continue running,
but if 1 more working disk failed during a re-building spare you're dead
in the water, unless it was the rebuilding spare in which case you're
still running.
that
Kind of like, which is better:
Raid 5 with a hot spare, or
Raid 6 with no hot spare
Either way, you'd have to lose two drives to be fried. I would think
Raid 6 would be better if there was a risk the second drive would be
rebuilding.while the hot spare for raid 5 was becoming active and still
drivesacross
With Raid 5 you lose the space of one drive to striping (spread out
all drives). How much do you lose to Raid 6?
You loose 2 drives worth of space to the redundancy, no matter the
layout or number of raid6 disks.
Ideally the parity should be spread across all the disks as apposed to
specific parity drives, at least as far as linux mdadm is concerned...
it may be different for IBM i cards/systems but in the linux world its
much faster to have the parity interleaved with the data as it prevents
contention on what would become a parity disk(s).
Is there a performance degradation from removing one of your disk
8of a 8 drive SCSI raid set to become hot spare?
I would think there would be two performance hits. One, dropping from
performancedrives supporting the raid stripe down to only 4. The other
listhit would be one less disk arm assisting while it's just sitting there
waiting to be hot spare.
Rob Berendt
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IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1
Group Dekko
Dept 1600
Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive
Garrett, IN 46738
Ship to: Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com
From: Sue Baker <sue.baker@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 03/19/2014 06:34 PM
Subject: Re: RAID 6 rebuild time - can I slash it?
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on Wed, 19 Mar
2014 16:29:52 GMT:
On a Saturday of my choosing, our HW service provider is going
to take our System i 520 from 2 8-drive RAID 5 sets to 2
8-drive RAID 6 sets w/hot spare.
Wow! This is quite a change in data protection.
You realize that in order to have your data at risk, you need to
lose 2 drives in the RAID6 array?
Generally, I recommend to customers to do RAID5 + hot spare or
RAID6. I see it as more importante to have as many disk units
as possible for RAID6 versus adding the tiny bit of reduced
delay time for rebuild to begin on a single failed drive that is
provided by hot spare.
Time to create the RAID6 arrays is mostly dependent on the size
of the drives. Other factors are whether there is data on them
or not (% full is irrelevent) and the type of disk controller.
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