[rescue] Ultra 2 upgrade question...

[Devin L. Ganger]

on 4/4/2005 7:12 PM Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Sandwich Maker wrote:

>>apples and oranges.  striping - especially across controllers - is a
>>great way to improve disk i/o.  raid5 requires the metadriver to
>>calculate/analyze ecc sums on the fly every time there's an i/o.

> Only on writes, neh?

Depends on the implementation, but all of the ones I've tested perform 
the checksum calculation on all read operations, too, to make sure the 
data is good.

At least I think they did. That's quite a while in the past and many, 
many brain page swaps ago.

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Devin L. Ganger <devin at thecabal.org>
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flow by being in its way." -- overheard on the PyraMOO