Interface and RAID Internals
Explore how RAID functions as a reliable, large, and fast disk to file systems. Understand its internal workings including microcontrollers, memory, and how it manages logical and physical I/O based on RAID levels.
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To a file system above, a RAID looks like a big, (hopefully) fast, and (hopefully) reliable disk. Just as with a single disk, it presents itself as a linear array of blocks, each of which can be read or written by the file system (or another client).
When a file system issues a logical I/O request to the RAID, the RAID ...