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From: greg@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: What is with these Vectors anyways?
Message-ID: <341@xios.XIOS.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 15:23:04 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 10 15:23:04 1987
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References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <11074@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: greg@sdn.UUCP (Greg Franks)
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In article <11074@amdahl.amdahl.com> chuck@amdahl.UUCP (Charles Simmons) writes:
>In article <2418@ames.arpa> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes:
>>These big machines also do disk stripping
>>
>OK.  I'll bite.  What is "disk stripping"?  

Striping means assigning file system partitions across multiple
devices so that contiguous file system operations can take place in
parallel.  Block 1 comes from disk 1, block 2 from disk 2 etc etc etc.

There was a presentation at the Washington USENIX on "virtual disks"
which briefly dealt with this topic.  

I'm sorry, but I can't supply any references.  If somebody happens to
know of any, send me mail, I'm interested too!
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