Re: IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:05:40AM -0600, Mark Lane wrote:
> single drive and could be slower depending on your hardware. Reads could be 
> faster depending on you hardware but twice? Only very highend (expensive) 
> SCSI raid cards do that and only theoretically. Practically you won't get 
> twice the performance.

Linux software raid will do read balancing so you may get better performance
and you can easily get more than twice with some loads. In most setups the
PCI bus is the blocker for everything that isnt limited by seek rate.