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Date:      Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:10:20 +0930
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src MAINTAINERS
Message-ID:  <20040817124020.GK88156@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040817112900.GA31635@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Tuesday, 17 August 2004 at 13:29:00 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:46:33AM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote..
>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 10:14:07AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> +> On Monday, 16 August 2004 at 10:43:41 +0000, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>> +> > pjd         2004-08-16 10:43:41 UTC
>> +> >
>> +> >   FreeBSD src repository
>> +> >
>> +> >   Modified files:
>> +> >     .                    MAINTAINERS
>> +> >   Log:
>> +> >   Add myself as geom_raid3 maintainer.
>> +>
>> +> RAID-3?  How are you going to run RAID-3 on a general purpose
>> +> computer?
>>
>> Where is the problem exactly?
>
> I guess Greg wonders about the suitability of RAID-3 for general
> purpose I/O patterns.  Nothing else.

On the contrary.  RAID-3 requires byte-level striping, which is
ridiculous on the hardware that FreeBSD supports.  I suspect that pjd
is confusing RAID-3 with RAID-4.  And RAID-4 has no advantages
whatsoever over RAID-5.

Greg
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