> > Also, where does this single disk RAID notion come from? This sounds
> > actually interesting. Is this a project actually in progress or to be
> > considered? Sure, it doesn't prevent data loss on disk failure, however
> > may improve the safety of your data a lot without plain out losing half
> > your disk space due to simple mirroring.
> 
> http://blogs.sun.com/bill/entry/ditto_blocks_the_amazing_tape
> 
> http://blogs.sun.com/relling/entry/zfs_copies_and_data_protection

Those are ditto blocks, basically mirroring. Under single disk RAID, I
understand parity striping on the same physical disk, with a user
defined ratio (i.e. one parity stripe for every 3 data stripes).

-mg

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