From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kasper Dupont Subject: Re: RAID-6 support in kernel? Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:52:16 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3CFB82A0.EB2062AE@daimi.au.dk> References: <20020603113128.C13204@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: To: Vojtech Pavlik Cc: Derek Vadala , Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Tedd Hansen , Christian Vik , Lars Christian Nygaard List-Id: linux-raid.ids Vojtech Pavlik wrote: >=20 > He was thinking "mirror", not "stripe". Mirror of 2 RAID-5 arrays (wo= uld > be probably called RAID-15 (when there is a RAID-10 for mirrored stri= pe > arrays)), can withstand any two disks failing anytime. It can actually withstand any *three* disks failing anytime. > Even more for > certain combinations. But it is terribly inefficient. --=20 Kasper Dupont -- der bruger for meget tid p=E5 usenet. =46or sending spam use mailto:razor-report@daimi.au.dk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html