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No one knows exactly what this is in context of mdadm, but this must be the minimum i/o size of the RAID block device. Regardless, I did som...

While performance of right-asymmetric, left-asymmetric, right-symmetric, left-symmetric, is roughly the same, the performance of parity-last...

Over the years your archival HDDs are susceptible to bitrot. You've to re-write them on regular intervals to prevent that. You can use d...

 If you've specified -r at the input, you may like to try moving it before the -vcodec to resolve the issue. With this change, the input...

 Methodology /mnt/tmpfs/ contains trimmed linux sources. Large files where removed to reduce the size of the total storage to 5GB. /mnt/tmpf...

Recently I came across this benchmark, which although old, but laughable (if you don't know why, I suggest you either readup more about...