From: Nikhil Kshirsagar <nkshirsa@redhat.com>
To: Linux RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: mdadm - raid6 best practices ?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:25:33 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMNNMLHLA8mEEKpX8UAXgZPYXyL+mhSBC74K_azC25z=+VAc7w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hello linux-raid,
A customer has some questions about raid6 best practices. They are
using a 84-disk MD1280 Expansion Shelf (seagate disks). They want to
use mdadm to setup a s/w raid, using raid6.
The questions are
a) recommended number of disks included in RAID array set?
b) Is it possible to include all 84 disks in one array and leave 2 of
them as host spare?
c) Is there a raid6 best practices document to refer to ?
Can anyone point me to me any internal docs or articles to construct a
reply to the customer?
Thanks,
Nikhil.
next reply other threads:[~2017-09-22 3:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-22 3:55 Nikhil Kshirsagar [this message]
2017-09-22 18:26 ` mdadm - raid6 best practices ? Song Liu
2017-09-22 19:24 ` Wols Lists
2017-09-22 21:44 ` John Stoffel
2017-09-23 0:40 ` Stan Hoeppner
2017-09-23 3:22 ` Nikhil Kshirsagar
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