But, does this occur for full stripe writes? -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Philip Molter Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 1:08 PM To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Force parity resync on raid5? No, it wouldn't. In RAID5 implementations, parity isn't recalculated when you write to a RAID, It's updated. My understanding is that typical implementations are, *VERY* basically: read the old data xor with the new data read the parity data xor with the parity data write the new data write the new parity data - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
