From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe Subject: Re: Adding Reed-Solomon Personality to MD, need help/advice Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:11:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <6.0.1.1.2.20040130235924.03f39710@mail.athenet.net> Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hello, Nathan Lewis wrote: > As part of my Master's thesis, I am working on adding a Reed-Solomon > personality to the existing linux RAID structure and I would like some Is there any progress in implementing a generic Reed-Solomon personality in MD since this mail from 31 Jan 2004? Regarding the intention-question... for me, personally, it would be the logical step inbetween raid5 resp. raid6 with survival of 1 resp. 2 simultaneous disk failures and raid10 with survival of n/2 simultaneous disk failures. RaidRS would give users the chance to configure redundancy and thus survivability exactly on their demands. This would especially make sense when I see the raid5 configurations with 14 and more devices which some users refer to on this list. To be honest, I was thinking about such a personality myself, too, and then was crawling the list's archive. regards Mario -- *axiom* welcher sensorische input bewirkte die output-aktion, den irc-chatter mit dem nick "dus" des irc-servers mittels eines kills zu verweisen?