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| author |   jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2008-01-26 16:39:27 +0000 |
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| committer | jmc <jmc@openbsd.org> | 2008-01-26 16:39:27 +0000 |
| commit | 0738e15a42ee90777c096dde210e67f5de0e09c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 5562081a27fae7dff41739628531eee18eed4a0a | |
| parent | replace reference to deprecated @pkgcfl keyword by @conflict (diff) | |
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document the supported disciplines in a little more detail;
from marco and myself
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/softraid.4 | 22 |
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/softraid.4 b/share/man/man4/softraid.4 index 169261fece9..841b1e2dafa 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/softraid.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/softraid.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: softraid.4,v 1.13 2008/01/26 08:58:54 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: softraid.4,v 1.14 2008/01/26 16:39:27 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2007 Todd T. Fries <todd@OpenBSD.org> .\" Copyright (c) 2007 Marco Peereboom <marco@OpenBSD.org> @@ -39,7 +39,25 @@ as it fits the SCSI model. .Pp Currently .Nm -supports a striping (RAID 0) and mirroring (RAID 1) discipline. +supports the following disciplines: +.Bl -ohang -offset indent +.It RAID 0 +A +.Em striping +discipline. +It segments data over a number of disks to increase performance. +RAID 0 does not provide for data loss (redundancy). +.It RAID 1 +A +.Em mirroring +discipline. +It copies data across more than one disk to provide for data loss. +Read performance is increased, +though at the cost of write speed. +Unlike traditional RAID 1, +.Nm +supports the use of more than two disks in a RAID 1 setup. +.El .Pp A .Em discipline |