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From: pg@xf2.for.sabi.co.UK (Peter Grandi)
To: Linux fs XFS <xfs@OSS.SGI.com>
Subject: Re: swidth in RAID
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:08:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20944.33331.145353.851055@tree.ty.sabi.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <557F888F-34EA-4669-B861-C0B684DAD13D@gmail.com>

> I understand swidth should = #data disks.  And the docs say
> for RAID 6 of 8 disks, that means 6. [ ... ] 8 disks/spindles
> working for you and a bit of parity on each. So shouldn't
> swidth equal disks in raid when its concerning distributed
> parity raid?

The main goal is trying to the reduce the probability of
read-modify-write.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-30 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-30 18:43 swidth in RAID aurfalien
2013-06-30 19:08 ` Peter Grandi [this message]
2013-06-30 21:42 ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-06-30 22:36   ` aurfalien
2013-07-01  1:38   ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-01  1:54     ` aurfalien
2013-07-01  2:09       ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-01  2:47         ` Stan Hoeppner
2013-07-01  2:54           ` aurfalien
2013-07-02 21:48             ` Peter Grandi
2013-07-03  0:15               ` Stan Hoeppner

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