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authorJoel Sing <jsing@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-01-18 09:11:13 +0000
committerJoel Sing <jsing@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-01-18 09:11:13 +0000
commit703841e59e89522d57d182597dd5f932ebf181c7 (patch)
treeb1f116a196d7194424b4ff029aaf4f8dc1a65f34 /share/man/man4/softraid.4
parent5d9a6f225ea47c9e0084b8aa8032ef1948ac07b7 (diff)
Disable the RAID 5 discipline in bioctl, as the current softraid RAID 5
discipline will more than likely eat data if a drive is lost. Discussed with krw@
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/softraid.4 b/share/man/man4/softraid.4
index e6b592c3fdf..65760e1a6d2 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/softraid.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/softraid.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: softraid.4,v 1.34 2014/01/18 09:01:01 jsing Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: softraid.4,v 1.35 2014/01/18 09:11:12 jsing Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Todd T. Fries <todd@OpenBSD.org>
.\" Copyright (c) 2007 Marco Peereboom <marco@OpenBSD.org>
@@ -78,14 +78,14 @@ though at the cost of write speed.
Unlike traditional RAID 1,
.Nm
supports the use of more than two chunks in a RAID 1 setup.
-.It RAID 5
-A striping discipline with
-.Em floating parity
-across all chunks.
-It stripes data across chunks and provides parity to prevent data loss of
-a single chunk failure.
-Read performance is increased;
-write performance does incur additional overhead.
+.\" .It RAID 5
+.\" A striping discipline with
+.\" .Em floating parity
+.\" across all chunks.
+.\" It stripes data across chunks and provides parity to prevent data loss of
+.\" a single chunk failure.
+.\" Read performance is increased;
+.\" write performance does incur additional overhead.
.It CRYPTO
An
.Em encrypting
@@ -195,9 +195,9 @@ The RAID 1 discipline does not initialize the mirror upon creation.
This is by design because all sectors that are read are written first.
There is no point in wasting a lot of time syncing random data.
.Pp
-The RAID 5 discipline do not initialize the parity upon creation.
-This is due to the scrub functionality not being currently implemented.
-.Pp
+.\" The RAID 5 discipline do not initialize the parity upon creation.
+.\" This is due to the scrub functionality not being currently implemented.
+.\" .Pp
Currently there is no automated mechanism to recover from failed disks.
.Pp
Sparc hardware needs to use fstype