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Date:      Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:44:04 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: geom - help ...
Message-ID:  <eeu4up$vdm$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060921104934.GB12198@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <20060920222944.M1031@ganymede.hub.org>	<eetn79$eu5$1@sea.gmane.org> <20060921104934.GB12198@garage.freebsd.pl>

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> This is RAID3, RAID4 is totally different.

They are similar, at least in definitions I could find. Both use a
dedicated parity disk, RAID3 stripes "bytes" while RAID3 stripes
"blocks". Because geom_raid3 stripes at sector level, I think it's more
similar to RAID4.

Of course, I'm willing to be educated on the subject :)




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