Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:47:28 +0100 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: What is gstripe ? Message-ID: <20070113004728.GQ2616@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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Hi list, Please forgive me, I know this is a dumb question. I've checked the manpage, Wikipedia [1], Webopedia [2] and a few other documents, but I'm still not sure to fully understand the striping concept. gmirror(8) provides RAID-1 and is very easy to understand. gconcat(8) is easy to grasp as well. However, I'm experiencing some difficulties to understand gstripe(8). I would say it's a kind of smart disk concatenation which stores block X on disk (X % N), where N is the number of disk in the RAID-0. This permits faster read/write. Am I right ? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_striping [2] http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html Thank you. Best regards, -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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