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From: Ethan Wilson <ethan.wilson@shiftmail.org>
Subject: Re: RAID6 - RMW logic
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 23:55:25 +0200
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On 30/07/2014 23:30, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:24:30 +0000 Markus Stockhausen
> <stockhausen@collogia.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the last days I tried to understand the RAID6 logic when recalculating
>> P/Q parity (or syndrome) if only parts of a stripe are updated....
>> ...
>> Markus
> Please see
>    http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.raid/42559
>
> Yes, this is something we probably want.
> The previous effort stalled somehow.  Maybe it just needs someone to start
> pushing again.
>
> NeilBrown

This feature would be wonderful !!
upvote!