Re: Are linux-fs's drive-fault-tolerant by concept?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
20 Apr 2003 19:48:42 +0100

On Sul, 2003-04-20 at 18:21, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> I know you favor a layer between low-level driver and fs probably. Sure it is
> clean design, and sure it sounds like overhead (Yet Another Layer).

Wrong again - its actually irrelevant to the cost of mirroring data, the cost
is entirely in the PCI and memory bandwidth. The raid1 management overhead is
almost nil

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