> For a RAID1 array built of two disks on two separate SCSI controllers,
> are the reads balanced between the two controllers (for higher speed) ?
With the current RAID1 setup, you will NOT get a speed increase for
single-threaded, sequential reading programs (read: benchmarks like hdparm
and tiobench)[1]. You will get improvents in all other cases.
Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven
[1] This can be fix by a 10 line patch, however this changes the on-disk
layout.
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