Re: RAID-6 support in kernel?

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:49:54 +0200


On Monday 03 June 2002 16:52, Kasper Dupont wrote:
> 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.

still - I don't want to waste that money

-- 
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester

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