From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Torcz Subject: Re: single disk reed solomon codes Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:48:43 +0200 Message-ID: <1216622923.6970.19.camel@s1.crocom.com.pl> References: <3da3b5b40807190521x35477489sc06195bb182a4561@mail.gmail.com> <0cb201c8e9b2$a4272b20$0a00a8c0@ALDI2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <0cb201c8e9b2$a4272b20$0a00a8c0@ALDI2> List-ID: Dnia 2008-07-19, sob o godzinie 17:18 +0200, Gerald Nowitzky pisze: > In the end, you would add very little security by the price of -at least- > cutting half your write performance. Thus, I don't think there is any point > in adding redundancy to single disk systems. ZFS can store multiple copies of data block within one disk. Using your words, it's like "Intra-Disk-RAID1". After reading data, when checksum shows it's corrupted, another copy (hopefully correct) is read from other disk location. This is adding security by the price of half storage capacity. Which seems like a fair game, given todays 1,5TB HDDs. -- Tomasz Torcz