Hello Anton,

Saturday, January 6, 2007, 6:29:29 AM, you wrote:

>> It's not about the checksum but about how a fs block is stored in
>> raid-z[12] case - it's spread out to all non-parity disks so in order
>> to read one fs block you have to read from all disks except parity
>> disks.

ABR> However, if we didn't need to verify the checksum, we wouldn't
ABR> have to read the whole file system block to satisfy small reads.

But we'll loose end-to-end integrity feature.
And still with 9 or more disks for most workloads we would endup
reading them all anyway as each disk would hold so small portion of fs
block.

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