From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Guy <bugzilla@watkins-home.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID-6 now in 2.6.1-mm
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:04:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <400C2A24.1010304@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401191848.i0JImOi01560@dns1.watkins-home.com>
Guy wrote:
> Can anyone explain how RAID6 works? I understand RAID5, XOR, but I don't
> see how that could be extended to allow any 2 disks to fail.
>
If you want the gory details, I've written a short paper on it:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/raid6.pdf
-hpa
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2004-01-19 6:49 RAID-6 now in 2.6.1-mm H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-19 18:48 ` Guy
2004-01-19 19:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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