Tom Lane writes:
> Is there any rhyme or reason to the various "RAID n" designations?
> Or were they just invented on the spur of the moment?
The paper that introduced the term RAID used a numerical classification
for the various schemes. (So I guess the answer is yes.) The traditional
levels are:
0 Nonredundant
1 Mirrored
2 Memory-style ECC
3 Bit-interleaved parity
4 Block-interleaved parity
5 Block-interleaved distributed parity
[Hennessy & Patterson]
There are also other levels. One poster talked about RAID 10 which
appears to be a mirrored RAID 5.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net