From: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>
To: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>,
Oliver Martin <oliver@volatilevoid.net>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating a 3-disk RAID6 array
Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 15:04:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB50573.6020604@anonymous.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB4FAA9.7000100@hesbynett.no>
On 17/05/2012 14:18, David Brown wrote:
[...]
> Theoretically, a 3-disk RAID6 is like a 2-disk RAID5 or a 1-disk RAID1 -
[...]
> I can't think of any good reason for it /not/ to support 3-disk
> RAID6, as there is nothing in the algorithms to hinder it.
I've a vague recollection of Peter Anvin saying the implementation is
optimised in such a way that it won't work.
Cheers,
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-17 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-17 1:24 Creating a 3-disk RAID6 array Oliver Martin
2012-05-17 1:38 ` NeilBrown
2012-05-17 13:18 ` David Brown
2012-05-17 14:04 ` John Robinson [this message]
2012-05-18 7:24 ` David Brown
2012-05-18 7:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-18 7:57 ` NeilBrown
2012-05-19 0:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-17 21:02 ` Dan Williams
2012-05-17 23:27 ` Oliver Martin
2012-05-17 4:22 ` Bill Davidsen
2012-05-18 2:36 ` Stan Hoeppner
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