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Date:      Mon, 02 Oct 1995 20:32:55 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org (Justin T. Gibbs), rsnow@txdirect.net, nc@ai.net, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RAID solutions for FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <199510030332.UAA07368@aslan.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Oct 1995 20:23:11 PDT." <199510030323.UAA00415@phaeton.artisoft.com> 

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>I *know* that 1-3 can be done without sequencer level coding.  I suspect
>that 4-5 can be too, albiet at a *very* high cost in processing time.
>
>Check out the ZEBRA FS papers (RAID II).

I read it last year.  It would be a total waste to do the parity
calculations on the host processor when the card will do this for
you (assuming I can get docs).

>					Terry Lambert
>					terry@lambert.org
>---
>Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
>or previous employers.

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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  Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM
  FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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