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From: "Peter W. Morreale" <morreale@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: with raid-6 any writes access all disks
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:23:26 -0600
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On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 16:01 -0500, Chris Pearson wrote: 
> In 2.6.39.1, any writes to a raid-6 array cause all disks to be
> accessed.  Though I don't understand the math behind raid-6, I have
> tested on LSI cards that it is possible to only access 3 disks.
> --

Hi Chris,

Did you mean to ask a question?

Thx,
-PWM


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