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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: New RAID-6 snapshot
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:35:53 -0800
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Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 03:34:28AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>Well, I implemented read-modify-write for RAID-6, and at least on my
>>6-disk system it was a small but measurable performance *loss*.
> 
> What was your previous patch doing instead?

The published snapshots (including the latest, since I backed out 
read-modify-write) all do read-reconstruct-write.

	-hpa