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author | Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-08-26 00:09:07 +0000 |
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committer | Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-08-26 00:09:07 +0000 |
commit | 2912a86246118ade758f7a28debe93a0ee16546e (patch) | |
tree | 67bedb154e14ac8dd5370b32c9b5f6a90ac0f30c /en_US.ISO8859-1 | |
parent | f5d3e40309d3a1bf510660166640f5dd4f626b12 (diff) | |
download | doc-2912a86246118ade758f7a28debe93a0ee16546e.tar.gz doc-2912a86246118ade758f7a28debe93a0ee16546e.zip |
Typo & grammar fixes.
Add <acronym>s.
Update disk speeds section.
PR: docs/41934
Submitted by: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>
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diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum/chapter.sgml index 367e4adcf6..7cc293467e 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum/chapter.sgml @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ <para>Disks are getting bigger, but so are data storage requirements. - Often you ill find you want a file system that is bigger than the disks + Often you will find you want a file system that is bigger than the disks you have available. Admittedly, this problem is not as acute as it was ten years ago, but it still exists. Some systems have solved this by creating an abstract device which stores its data on a number of disks.</para> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ disks.</para> <para>Current disk drives can transfer data sequentially at up to - 30 MB/s, but this value is of little importance in an environment + 70 MB/s, but this value is of little importance in an environment where many independent processes access a drive, where they may achieve only a fraction of these values. In such cases it is more interesting to view the problem from the viewpoint of the disk @@ -85,10 +85,10 @@ <para><anchor id="vinum-latency"> Consider a typical transfer of about 10 kB: the current generation of - high-performance disks can position the heads in an average of 6 ms. The - fastest drives spin at 10,000 rpm, so the average rotational latency - (half a revolution) is 3 ms. At 30 MB/s, the transfer itself takes about - 350 μs, almost nothing compared to the positioning time. In such a + high-performance disks can position the heads in an average of 3.5 ms. The + fastest drives spin at 15,000 rpm, so the average rotational latency + (half a revolution) is 2 ms. At 70 MB/s, the transfer itself takes about + 150 μs, almost nothing compared to the positioning time. In such a case, the effective transfer rate drops to a little over 1 MB/s and is clearly highly dependent on the transfer size.</para> @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ For example, the first 256 sectors may be stored on the first disk, the next 256 sectors on the next disk and so on. After filling the last disk, the process repeats until the disks are full. This mapping is called - <emphasis>striping</emphasis> or RAID-0. + <emphasis>striping</emphasis> or <acronym>RAID-0</acronym>. <footnote> <indexterm> @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ </figure> </para> - <para>Compared to mirroring, RAID-5 has the advantage of requiring + <para>Compared to mirroring, <acronym>RAID-5</acronym> has the advantage of requiring significantly less storage space. Read access is similar to that of striped organizations, but write access is significantly slower, approximately 25% of the read performance. If one drive fails, the array @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ the system automatically assigns names derived from the plex name by adding the suffix <emphasis>.s</emphasis><emphasis>x</emphasis>, where <emphasis>x</emphasis> is the number of the subdisk in the plex. Thus - Vinum gives this subdisk the name <emphasis>myvol.p0.s0</emphasis></para> + Vinum gives this subdisk the name <emphasis>myvol.p0.s0</emphasis>.</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> @@ -736,8 +736,8 @@ </listitem> <listitem> - <para>The directories <devicename>/dev/vinum/plex</devicename> and - <devicename>/dev/vinum/sd</devicename>, + <para>The directories <devicename>/dev/vinum/plex</devicename>, + <devicename>/dev/vinum/sd</devicename>, and <devicename>/dev/vinum/rsd</devicename>, which contain block device nodes for each plex and block and character device nodes respectively for each subdisk.</para> |