File system blocks alignment

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4B34C619.7070505 at FreeBSD.org>, Alexander Motin writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>- Second is a row size - stripe size * number of data disks. You may
>freely read less information then full row, but short write cause RAID
>to handle read-modify-write scenario.

There is a far worse scenario: a stripe-spanning write, it forces a
RMW cycle over two different RAID5 stripes.

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