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Date:      Wed, 2 Feb 2000 08:23:06 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
Cc:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hardware vs software stripping
Message-ID:  <20000202082306.T76348@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000201213108.A9984@yedi.iaf.nl>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001301401360.60037-100000@server.b0x.com> <200001311432.HAA32638@narnia.plutotech.com> <20000131191957.A906@yedi.iaf.nl> <20000201190730.R76348@freebie.lemis.com> <20000201213108.A9984@yedi.iaf.nl>

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On Tuesday,  1 February 2000 at 21:31:09 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 07:07:30PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Monday, 31 January 2000 at 19:19:57 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 07:32:31AM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>>>> In article <20000131104827.A62824@freebie.lemis.com> you wrote:
>
> ...
>
>>> FWIW the Compaq HSx arrays try hard to distinguish full stripe
>>> writes on RAID5 and switches to RAID3 behaviour. This is as Justin
>>> says all on block level (or rather chunk level where a chunk is a
>>> number of 512byte blocks).
>>
>> Well, see my other message.  I'd like to call this RAID-4.  But it's
>
> Compaq calls it adaptive RAID3/5. Whatever...

I'm beginning to get the impression that a number of vendors are
reinterpreting RAID levels.

Greg
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