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Date:      Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:23:14 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        sbabkin@dcn.att.com
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, shimon@simon-shapiro.org, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, grog@lemis.com, jdn@acp.qiv.com, blkirk@float.eli.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI Bus redundancy...
Message-ID:  <199803022323.QAA24805@usr09.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EE4132C8@dcn71.dcn.att.com> from "sbabkin@dcn.att.com" at Mar 2, 98 02:23:50 pm

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> > You would have to remember to grab the blocks to be relocated with
> > the same O(n) randomness as their allocation.  8-).
>
> Huh ? Probably I've missed something about RAIDs. I've thought
> that, for example, RAID block 0 consists of blocks 0 of all
> the physical disks. And so on. And I've thought that RAID itself
> does not allocate any blocks, the upper level like filesystem or
> volume manager does it, RAID just makes chechsuming. Am I wrong again ?

If I allocate N stripes on M devices, I have N/M stripes per device.

If I add a device, I do not automagically end up with N/(M+1) stripes
per device.  I have to move some stripes around.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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