From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+list@rabbit.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] relax checks to support 3disk raid6 arrays
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:20:20 +0100
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To: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
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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