From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why do I need 4 disks for a raid6?
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:48:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877i2mk6qb.fsf@frosties.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090318142653.GA15321@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> (Robin Hill's message of "Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:26:53 +0000")
Robin Hill <robin@robinhill.me.uk> writes:
> You could do this via the new RAID5-RAID6 migration. Either:
Oh, someone is working on that. Didn't know that. That certainly makes
3 disk raid6 less important as one can go via raid5 then.
But still. If it is only that one line in the kernel that checks < 4
instead of < 3 then ...
MfG
Goswin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-18 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-17 19:12 Why do I need 4 disks for a raid6? Goswin von Brederlow
2009-03-18 3:41 ` david.geib
2009-03-18 9:50 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-03-18 18:12 ` david.geib
2009-03-18 12:18 ` Andre Noll
[not found] ` <49C0EA5F.9070901@vshift.com>
2009-03-18 12:35 ` Andre Noll
2009-03-18 14:08 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-03-18 14:26 ` Robin Hill
2009-03-18 18:48 ` Goswin von Brederlow [this message]
2009-04-01 16:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-01 17:47 ` Andre Noll
2009-04-01 20:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-01 18:07 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-01 19:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-19 23:35 ` Neil Brown
2009-03-20 10:20 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-03-23 20:20 ` Nifty Fedora Mitch
2009-03-24 19:32 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-01 16:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
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