raid or not raid

[Norberto Meijome]

On Fri, 25 May 2007 04:37:25 -0400 (EDT)
"kalin mintchev" <kalin at el.net> wrote:

replying to your email down the thread...but using this content...

>  L(q)  ops/s    r/s   kBps   ms/r    w/s   kBps   ms/w   %busy Name
>     0      6      6    627    8.5      0      0    0.0    5.0| ad4

The actual disk, ad4

>     0      6      6    627    8.5      0      0    0.0    5.0| ad4s1

the first slice in the disk

>     0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| ad6
>     0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| ad4s1a
>     0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| ad4s1b
>     0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| ad4s1c
>     0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| ad4s1d
>     0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| ad4s1e
>     0      0      0      0    0.0      0      0    0.0    0.0| ad4s1f
>     0      6      6    627    8.5      0      0    0.0    5.0| ad4s1g

the g partition in slice 1 of disk ad4.

They all get used (from the GEOM POV) when , for example, userland access the fs located in ad4s1g .

clear as mud?  ;)
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