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RMWRock My Wedding (UK)
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RMWRead-Modify-Write
RMWRM Williams (Holding Limited)
RMWRiver Murray Water (Australia)
RMWRobert Mondavi Winery
RMWRadius of Maximum Wind (cyclones)
RMWRock My World
RMWRadioactive Mixed Waste(s)
RMWRubin Mallows Worldwide (various locations)
RMWRare, Medium, Well Done (cooking options)
RMWRegional Municipality of Waterloo (Canada)
RMWRelativity Modernization Workbench
RMWRequired Minimum Withdrawal (IRA)
RMWReginald Murray Williams (Australian clothing brand)
RMWRoad Master Wagon
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In a typical Read-Modify-Write operation, multiple I/Os must be executed for each logical write request.
With these instructions, it is possible to construct atomic read-modify-write sequences that allow updating any datum contained within a single aligned quadword.
Write performance in a parity array is reduced by the "read-modify-write penalty." Before a write can be completed to disk, the contents of the disk blocks that will be modified (including the parity blocks) are read, new parity check data is calculated and then the blocks are updated.