Re: RAID-6 support in kernel?

Kasper Dupont (kasperd@daimi.au.dk)
Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:52:16 +0200


Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>
> He was thinking "mirror", not "stripe". Mirror of 2 RAID-5 arrays (would
> be probably called RAID-15 (when there is a RAID-10 for mirrored stripe
> arrays)), can withstand any two disks failing anytime.

It can actually withstand any *three* disks failing anytime.

> Even more for
> certain combinations. But it is terribly inefficient.

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