Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 18:56:38 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: grog@lemis.com Cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, ticso@cicely.de, pantzer@ludd.luth.se, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID-5 and failure Message-ID: <199911191756.SAA54750@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <19991119101720.35872@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 19, 1999 10:17:20 am"
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As Greg Lehey wrote ... > On Thursday, 18 November 1999 at 23:38:52 -0500, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > Bernd Walter wrote: > >> > >> I asume that's the reason why some systems use 520 byte sectors - maybe they > >> write timestamps or generationnumbers in a single write within the sector. > > > > 528. 512 data, 16 ECC for the sector. Nothing to do with RAID. > > There are various sizes. I've had surplus disks with 516 and 520 byte > sectors. But yes, they're usually under hardware control. I've also seen 518 once. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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