cvs commit: src MAINTAINERS

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 17 06:16:14 PDT 2004


On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:10:20PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
+> On the contrary.  RAID-3 requires byte-level striping, which is
+> ridiculous on the hardware that FreeBSD supports.

And RAID5 isn't? So what's the difference? RAID3 requires 2^n+1
components where n >= 1, so minimum is 3.

+> [...] I suspect that pjd
+> is confusing RAID-3 with RAID-4.  And RAID-4 has no advantages
+> whatsoever over RAID-5.

I'm not confusing RAID3 with RAID4. This is RAID3 and it works well.
Want to compare performance with vinum's RAID5?:)
And RAID3 has many advantages over RAID5.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.FreeBSD.org
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://garage.freebsd.pl
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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