From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: RAID5E Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 09:47:30 -0400 Message-ID: <447D9E72.3000704@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Linux Raid List List-Id: linux-raid.ids Where I was working most recently some systems were using RAID5E (RAID5 with both the parity and hot spare distributed). This seems to be highly desirable for small arrays, where spreading head motion over one more drive will improve performance, and in all cases where a rebuild to the hot spare will avoid a bottleneck on a single drive. Is there any plan to add this capability? -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979