Re: raid and cgd

[Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost>]

Mouse wrote:
> > My raid is made of two disks dk8 and dk9.  When there is an activity
> > on cgd, dk8 and dk9 shows more than 2x bytes each than cgd.  Why is
> > that?
> 
> Speculation: read-modify-write cycles?
> 
> Speculation: cgd's encryption leading to accessing more of its
> underlying disk than the upper-layer access?

One more: when raid is configured for the first time, it needs to
do something with every block? I'm a newbie and so far I spent more
time learning about raid commands on linux (disgusting!). Time to
read raid(4) and raidctl(8) properly.

-- 
Alex