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From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Re: devfs
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:31:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9357.1101234687@piper.nectar.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041123040223.GV44345@cassie.foobarbaz.net>

> From reading the code, it looks like mirrors in devfs
> are read preferring the first drive in the mirror, and
> only reading from the second drive if there's a
> failure. Is this correct, and if so, is anyone working
> on round-robin reading to improve read performance?

Beware the text beginning with "Since writes go to all
devices in the mirror but reads are performed just by
the first device ..." in the "Setting Up Fossil" Wiki
document,
<http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/setting_up_fossil/index.html>.

Dave Eckhardt


      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-11-23 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-23  4:02 [9fans] devfs Christopher Nielsen
2004-11-23  4:30 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-11-23 13:53   ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2004-11-23 14:01     ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-11-23 18:31 ` Dave Eckhardt [this message]

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