[Lustre-discuss] raid5 patches for rhel5

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jul 18, 2008  08:39 -0400, Robin Humble wrote:
> I notice that Lustre 1.6.5 brings with it the md layer RAID5 patches
> for RHEL5 kernels. thanks! :-)
> are all the RHEL4 optimisations there, so we should get the same
> performance if we now move our OSS's to RHEL5?

That is my understanding, yes.  Note that there are also similar
performance improvements for RAID-6.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.