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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 :)