From: Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+list@rabbit.us>
To: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] relax checks to support 3disk raid6 arrays
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:20:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C35FD4.1010102@rabbit.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090320091436.GM17185@skl-net.de>
Andre Noll wrote:
> On 11:09, Neil Brown wrote:
>
>> Have you tried a 3-disk raid6 yet? Any conclusions?
>
> Yes, I played around a bit and used the two attached patches that
> relax some checks in the kernel and in mdadm. It appears to work fine,
> but I did only minimal testing with small loop devices, so I would
> not recommend it for production use yet :)
>
> Regards
> Andre
>
In the last lines of the patch:
Name ": at least 4 raid-devices needed for level 6\n");
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-20 9:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-18 12:53 [PATCH] md: raid5 run(): Fix max_degraded for raid level 4 Andre Noll
2009-03-20 0:09 ` Neil Brown
2009-03-20 9:14 ` [PATCH] relax checks to support 3disk raid6 arrays Andre Noll
2009-03-20 9:20 ` Peter Rabbitson [this message]
2009-03-20 9:29 ` Andre Noll
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