[Ocfs-users] To ASM or Not to ASM is the question!

[Wim Coekaerts]

can't really give specific numbers ;-)

a few things to undestand tho

asm does more than just manage files, it can be set up to do mirroring,
striping, automatically move data around in the backgorund etc. now, it
can do this more intelligently. if yous ay well my storage array does
this.. yeah it does but at recovery after a crash or some such, it
doesn't know specifics. ASM does. 

of course it does incur some overhead in doing so, nothing is free... 

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:40:38PM -0500, Raj wrote:
> Had anybody done benchmarks comparing 10G RAC with and without ASM?
> Better yet I would like to know if there are any performance
> improvements of using ASM instead of OCFS. With all the hardware RAID
> available I'm having a hard time to justify the use of ASM. Any
> feedback is appreciated.
> 
> Raj
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