On Feb 1, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Phil Turmel [off-list ref] wrote:

On 02/01/2013 01:49 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:

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Does this option mean, in effect, the 7th disk is just a parity disk? So, sorta like a hybrid RAID 5/RAID4.

Yes, with just the Q left on the 7th disk.  The remainder of the array
is the normal raid5 stripe.  See the manpage for the layout
"left-symmetric-6".

Just when I thought I had some lanterns illuminating most of the rabbit hole…

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