Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: The missing RAID level | Date | Thu, 22 Apr 2004 02:54:51 +0000 (UTC) |
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Followup to: <045P8FJ12@server5.heliogroup.fr> By author: Hubert Tonneau <hubert.tonneau@fullpliant.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > So, one very interesting possibility would be to have an extra RAID level that > would do the following: > assuming that you connect 5+1 partitions, then you get 5 md partitions, not a > single one, with the following properties: > . any read to mdX goes straight forward to reading the underlying partition. > . any write goes staight forward to writting the underlying partition, but also > updates the parity on the extra partition. >
You have just described RAID 4.
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