On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, John Jolet wrote: > you'd have to define "just plain raid". There is a performance > penalty for software raid over hardware raid, but I've not been able > to see any performance penalty for lvm over plain filesystem. Note > that my testing has been on light-to-moderately loaded systems, not > heavily io-based.
Im talking about software RAID specifically. I would assume running lvm2 (a software process) over software RAID would have more overhead than just software RAID alone. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list