Florian Weimer wrote:
seek/read/calculate/seek/write since the drive moves on after the
read), when you read you must read _all_ drives in the set to check
the data integrity.
I don't know of any RAID implementation that performs consistency
checking on each read operation. 8-(
Dave had too much egg nog... :-)
Yep - checking consistency on read would eliminate the performance benefits of RAID under any redundant configuration.
Cheers,
mark
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Mark Mielke <mark@mielke.cc>