From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Evans Subject: Re: RAID5 Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:21:16 -0700 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Kaushal Shriyan Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > Hi > > I am a newbie to RAID. is strip size and block size same. How is it > calculated. is it 64Kb by default. what should be the strip size ? > > I have referred to > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid5#RAID_5_parity_handling. How is > parity handled in case of RAID 5. > > Please explain me with an example. > > Thanks and Regards, > > Kaushal > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid"= in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > You already have one good resource. I wrote this a while ago, and the preface may answer some questions you have about the terminology used. http://wiki.tldp.org/LVM-on-RAID However the question you're asking is more or less borderline off-topic for this mailing list. If the linked information is insufficient I suggest using the Wikipedia article's links to learn more. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html