Disk striping experiences?

[David E. Bernholdt]

We are considering striping some of the disks on our FPS-500EA1 and
would like to hear the positive or negative experiences of others with
striping disks on any kind of high-performance (unix) box.

The striped disks will be used solely as "scratch" space by running
jobs, so the problem of the failure of a single drive destroying the
entire striped file system is not a concern.  Perhaps there are other
problems which we haven't thought of?  Should we expect to see
significant improvement in I/O rates in a multi-user production
environment?  Etc...

Please reply by email -- I will summarize if there is interest.
Thanks in advance.
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David Bernholdt			bernhold at qtp.ufl.edu
Quantum Theory Project		bernhold at ufpine.bitnet
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL  32611		904/392 6365