Thank you Edgar for your interest, I have read ?Is RAID5 Really a Bargain?? http://www.hotsos.com/e-library/abstract.php?id=11 as well as ?db_file_mutliblock_read_count and physical IO? ORACLE-L thread, before ask my question. I thought about RAID5 as you described. However Cary in his paper ?Is RAID5 Really a Bargain?? and in ORACLE-L thread have mentioned ?R + 4W? formula regardless of spins count in RAID. Why ?R + 4W?, I wonder? I assume that the way how it can be is: 1. regardless of spin count RAID5 use 3+1 formula 2. to make single ?small? write, we need to touch all chunks of RAID5 (3+1) Please correct me. Jurijs PS I am going to read http://www.miracleas.dk/BAARF/0.Millsap1996.08.21-VLDB.pdf On 09.09.2004 22:58:06 oracle-l-bounce wrote: >Dear Jurijs, > >>>- Level 1: would have to process (R + W) I/O requests per second >>>- Level 5: would have to process (R + 4W) I/O requests per second > >JVal> Can I kindly ask you to clarify few questions? >JVal> 1. Is 4W figure (in formula above) constant in context of RAID 5 array and >JVal> not depend on spindles count? I suspect that it can be constant in any >JVal> RAID5 implementation. In case of 6 spindles block will be distributed as: > >Unless I'm missing something than according to raid specs it doesn't >mater how many disks are in raid5 array, you just need one additional >disk for checksums, so in case of 6 spindle array you can create raid5 >that will operate according to your schema (it actually will be two >raid5 arrays) or you can create one raid5 array that will use 5 disks >for data and one disk for checksums. > >Please, correct me if I'm wrong. > >JVal> 2. If we need to change one of 3 data blocks belonging to one RAID5 set, >JVal> block. Do I understand correctly? So for writing one block into RAID5 we >JVal> need 2W+2R. Or I am wrong? > >Actually it's 6 step process something similar to 2W+2C+2R where 2C is >for cpu service. For more information read excelent article by Cary >Millsap (http://www.miracleas.dk/BAARF/0.Millsap1996.08.21-VLDB.pdf) >at page 11. > >-- >Best regards, >Edgar > >-- >To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe >To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/