> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geibel, Jonathan [mailto:Jonathan.Geibel AT disney DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:24 PM
> To: Mark Evangelista
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Using MPX causing disk access times to
> skyrocket
> 
> 
> 
> so that's disk *access* time not necessarily disk 
> throughput..  one guess 
> is that when you multistream from one disk to two drives (each drive 
> accepting two streams) netbackup is going to have to bounce between 
> writing stream 1 and writing stream 2.. it's not a very intelligent 
> streaming mechanism if I'm remembering correctly..  

I don't remember where from, but someone told me that NetBackup actually did
some intelligent work when multi-stream was enabled, and would not multi
stream from partitions on the same disk.

Is this in fact false?

Jason
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