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		quickthrower2 on Aug 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS Redundant Array of Disks (cost not specified)

askvictor on Aug 23, 2023 [–]

I always thought it was Independent Disks, though how one disk could be dependent on another is beyond me. Perhaps the I is redundant?

throw0101b on Aug 23, 2023 | | [–]

The original Patterson, Gibson, Katz paper has "Inexpensive":

* https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~garth/RAIDpaper/Patterson88.pdf

* https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/u-c-berkeley-p...

quickthrower2 on Aug 23, 2023 | | [–]

Looking it up I think you are right. I thought it was inexpensive.

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