I agree though, without an early-game way of moving between islands, it might be infeasible to try a completely vanilla playthrough on a map like that...


With elevated rails, you could do an island map in vanilla.


Yeah, but they require "Production science packs" (=purple science) for ...

The islands type map could be nice as an optional preset. There are people looking for that kind of stuff. For example to use with the Cargo Ships mod. And the existing island map is just one larger island.

+1.

When I saw that "many smallish islands" prototype map (titled "Problem: Plateaus ...

Sofware RAID1 - in my experience - usually does with that metadata what I'd consider the right thing for a RAID1:
It stores it in RAID1 mode, e.g. every drive contains the complete metadata.

I don't have much experience with HW-Raid though, so yeah, it seems some vendors do weird stuff... one ...

Eh, yea. RAID 5 does have parity data, but if my notebook example had 'word word <jibberish>' it'd just confuse the guy I was trying to help. And, functionally, data is encoded on RAID 5 the same way that it is in RAID 0 (assuming the stripe sizes/disk counts are the same). It's just you do one ...

My example covers both RAID 0 and RAID 5. I specifically mentioned, 3 times, that RAID 1 was different and actually *could* (potentially) be used without its other member RAID disk. Re-read what I wrote again.


oh, sorry, missed that bit. :?
Removing only the "not RAID1" bis from the last ...

RAID writes the data to the hard drive in such a way that, unless you are using software mirroring (RAID 1), the data will be useless outside of the RAID set. Hardware RAID 1 would also be unreadable. The reason software RAID 1 can be read is something of a mystery to me, but I've done it enough ...

Seems like I've hit this issue, too. After updating I get a desync every 5 to 15 sec, no matter if I run around or stay still.
Since there are 4 desync reports already, I don't think mine would be of any additional help. If you need them anyway, I'll gladly provide them.