Re: RAID-6 support in kernel?
From: Kasper Dupont <hidden>
Date: 2002-06-03 14:52:28
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Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
He was thinking "mirror", not "stripe". Mirror of 2 RAID-5 arrays (would be probably called RAID-15 (when there is a RAID-10 for mirrored stripe arrays)), can withstand any two disks failing anytime.
It can actually withstand any *three* disks failing anytime.
Even more for certain combinations. But it is terribly inefficient.
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