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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/softraid.4 | 12 |
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/softraid.4 b/share/man/man4/softraid.4 index 865a64b8d48..d56f9e132ba 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/softraid.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/softraid.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: softraid.4,v 1.24 2009/07/20 04:12:25 cnst Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: softraid.4,v 1.25 2009/10/11 14:29:49 sobrado Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2007 Todd T. Fries <todd@OpenBSD.org> .\" Copyright (c) 2007 Marco Peereboom <marco@OpenBSD.org> @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 20 2009 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 11 2009 $ .Dt SOFTRAID 4 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -80,13 +80,17 @@ Unlike traditional RAID 1, .Nm supports the use of more than two chunks in a RAID 1 setup. .It RAID 4 -A striping discipline with a fixed parity chunk. +A striping discipline with a +.Em fixed parity +chunk. It stripes data across chunks and provides parity to prevent data loss of a single chunk failure. Read performance is increased, though write performance is limited by the parity chunk. .It RAID 5 -A striping discipline with floating parity across all chunks. +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; |