From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Elsayed Subject: Re: [RFC v2 0/2] New RAID library supporting up to six parities Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 05:11:02 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1389000716-3274-1-git-send-email-amadvance@gmail.com> <52CA9A97.4000803@shiftmail.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids joystick wrote: > On 06/01/2014 10:31, Andrea Mazzoleni wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This is a port to the Linux kernel of a RAID engine that I'm currently >> using in a hobby project called SnapRAID. This engine supports up to six >> parities levels and at the same time maintains compatibility with the >> existing Linux RAID6 one. >> > > This is just great Andrea, > thank you for such Epiphany present. > > Just by looking at the Subjects, it seems patch number 0/1 is missing. > It might have not gotten through to the lists, or be a numbering mistake. No, the numbering style is ${index}/${total}, where index = 0 is a cover letter. So there are two patches total, 1/2 and 2/2, with the cover letter 0/2.