From 68150ab81489e966b94eee003634b81ec6c548bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Mazzoleni Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 22:14:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Minor doc changes. --- HISTORY | 2 +- README | 21 +++++++++++---------- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY index a3cadb6b..945fbeaf 100644 --- a/HISTORY +++ b/HISTORY @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ SnapRAID HISTORY * For "sync", added a new -h, --pre-hash option to run a preliminary hashing step for all the new files to ensure to detect silent errors caused by the heavy machine usage of the parity computation. - * In "fix", if a previous attempt was made, resulting in a + * In "fix", if a previous fixing attempt was made resulting in a .unrecoverable file, uses this file as starting point for the new attempt. * New source code organization. The RAID engine is now diff --git a/README b/README index 96402ee0..cc37ea37 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ SnapRAID SnapRAID is a backup program for a disk array. SnapRAID stores redundancy information in the disk array, -and it allows recovering from up to two disk failures. +and it allows recovering from up to six disk failures. SnapRAID is mainly targeted for a home media center, where you have a lot of big files that rarely change. @@ -12,17 +12,18 @@ a lot of big files that rarely change. Beside the ability to recover from disk failures, the other features of SnapRAID are: -* You can start using SnapRAID with already filled disks. -* The disks can have different sizes. -* You can add disks at any time. -* If you accidentally delete some files in a disk, you can - recover them. -* If more than two disks fail, you lose the data only on the - failed disks. All the data in the other disks is safe. -* It doesn't lock-in your data. You can stop using SnapRAID at any - time without the need to reformat or move data. * All your data is hashed to ensure data integrity and to avoid silent corruption. +* If the failed disks are too many to allow a recovery, + you lose the data only on the failed disks. + All the data in the other disks is safe. +* If you accidentally delete some files in a disk, you can + recover them. +* You can start with already filled disks. +* The disks can have different sizes. +* You can add disks at any time. +* It doesn't lock-in your data. You can stop using SnapRAID at any + time without the need to reformat or move data. The official site of SnapRAID is: