Re: RAID-6 support in kernel?
From: Vojtech Pavlik <hidden>
Date: 2002-06-03 14:56:09
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On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 04:52:16PM +0200, Kasper Dupont wrote:
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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.
Yes, you're right.
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Even more for certain combinations. But it is terribly inefficient.
-- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs