Re: Recover RAID6 with 4 disks removed

On Thu, Feb 06, 2020 at 03:07:00PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:

didn't you realize that RAID6 has redundancy to survive *exactly two*
failing disks no matter how many disks the array has anmd the data and
redundancy informations are spread ove the disks?

Not at the moment, i tested on a VM before but with 6 disks and removing 2
and then did it on the server without thinking/realizing than 4 is different
than 2 and that it would obsviously f**k the RAID array... (>_<')

unlikely - the started reshape did writes

That's what i was afraid of. Thank you anyway for the answer.