<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>Software-RAID HOWTO: Questions Waiting for Answers</TITLE> <LINK HREF="Software-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO-11.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="Software-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO-9.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="Software-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO.html#toc10" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="Software-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO-11.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Software-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO-9.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Software-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO.html#toc10">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s10">10. Questions Waiting for Answers</A></H2> <P> <OL> <LI><B>Q</B>: If, for cost reasons, I try to mirror a slow disk with a fast disk, is the S/W smart enough to balance the reads accordingly or will it all slow down to the speed of the slowest? <P> </LI> <LI><B>Q</B>: For testing the raw disk thru put... is there a character device for raw read/raw writes instead of <CODE>/dev/sdaxx</CODE> that we can use to measure performance on the raid drives?? is there a GUI based tool to use to watch the disk thru-put?? <P> </LI> </OL> <HR> <A HREF="Software-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO-11.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Software-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO-9.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Software-RAID-0.4x-HOWTO.html#toc10">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>
