From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: what superblock to use Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:39:46 +0200 Message-ID: <49EC7B22.8070805@lfarkas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids hi, what's the current recommended superblock to use for a newly created raid5-6 array with 6 pieces of 1tb disk? by default mdamd use 0.90. is it worth to change it to any 1.x format? anyway is there any advantage of a raid6 over raid5+1spare disk? afaik raid5 will be faster and use less cpu and both case 2 disk can failed. thanks in advance. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"