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author | Joel Sing <jsing@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-01-18 09:11:13 +0000 |
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committer | Joel Sing <jsing@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2014-01-18 09:11:13 +0000 |
commit | 703841e59e89522d57d182597dd5f932ebf181c7 (patch) | |
tree | b1f116a196d7194424b4ff029aaf4f8dc1a65f34 /share/man/man4/softraid.4 | |
parent | 5d9a6f225ea47c9e0084b8aa8032ef1948ac07b7 (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@
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/softraid.4')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/softraid.4 | 24 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
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 |