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Date:      Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:19:01 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: File system blocks alignment 
Message-ID:  <28375.1261765141@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:03:05 %2B0200." <4B34C619.7070505@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <4B34C619.7070505@FreeBSD.org>, Alexander Motin writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>- Second is a row size - stripe size * number of data disks. You may
>freely read less information then full row, but short write cause RAID
>to handle read-modify-write scenario.

There is a far worse scenario: a stripe-spanning write, it forces a
RMW cycle over two different RAID5 stripes.

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