In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sten Spans w rites: >>> What about disk arrays that support RAID3? >> >> Would work for me, but most of them are dumbed down when they do RAID3: >> they have to hard format the disks to 128 byte sector sizes and similar >> madness in order to support 512 bytes sectors on the RAID3 volume. > >I would really love the 512 + 8 byte checksum stuff that mainframes >and netapps do. Does GEOM simplify implementing something like this ?
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