vinum in 4.x poor performer?

[Michael L. Squires]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> I read that somewhere, but then every example shows 256k as being the strip 
> size :(  Now, with a 5 drives RAID5 array (which I'll be moving that server 
> to over the next couple of weeks), 256k isn't an issue?  or is there 
> something better i should set it to?
>

The 4.10 man 8 vinum page shows 512K in the example, but later on it says 
that if cylinder groups are 32MB in size you should avoid a power of 2 
which will place all superblocks and inodes on the same subdisk and that 
an odd number (479kB is the example) should be chosen.

Mike Squires