On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:20 PM, McKown, John <[email protected]>wrote:
> If it were a single drive in a Raid 5 type configuration, I'd guess it > would be totally impossible. But in a Raid 1 (mirrored), why not? Each > drive contains the entire set of bits. But I don't know that for sure. It's > just a SWAG. > Yeah, the RAID level would matter a lot! The DS8000 doc I found says it supports RAID 5, 6, and 10. All of those do some "spreading" (or striping, in RAID 10), so I'd guess the short answer is "Not very practical", or at least non-trivial. OTOH, if it's NSA working over a discarded drive from an Al Qaeda DS8000... -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
