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From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: detection of silent corruption via ATA long sector reads
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:20:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <495F6622.9010103@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq13ag174af.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>

On 02/01/2009 22:04, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
[...]
> I wrote something akin to DIF in software by doing 64 512-byte blocks +
> 512 bytes of checksums.  The disadvantage there is having to do
> read-modify-write for small writes.  I tried several other approaches
> sacrificing both space and locality but performance was still anemic.

Excuse me if I'm being dense - and indeed tell me! - but RAID 4/5/6 
already suffer from having to do ready-modify-write for small writes, so 
is there any chance this could be done at relatively little additional 
expense for these?

Cheers,

John.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-03 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.8mwKV7y4hm+Q6mvIKtp9QGoJYUU@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.4QcsYZC0gJJwJ0eUOht3hDYaVWs@ifi.uio.no>
2008-12-28 22:40   ` RFC: detection of silent corruption via ATA long sector reads Sitsofe Wheeler
2008-12-30 13:48     ` Mark Lord
2009-01-02 20:26     ` Greg Freemyer
2009-01-02 20:43       ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2009-01-02 21:05         ` Greg Freemyer
2009-01-02 22:04       ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-02 22:41         ` Greg Freemyer
2009-01-03  3:01           ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-03 13:20         ` John Robinson [this message]
2009-01-04  7:37           ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-04 12:31             ` John Robinson
2009-01-04 13:49               ` John Robinson
2009-01-05  2:43                 ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-05  2:45               ` Martin K. Petersen
2009-01-05  3:24                 ` NeilBrown
2008-12-26 21:44 Greg Freemyer
2008-12-26 22:15 ` Robert Hancock
2008-12-28 22:26 ` Mark Lord

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