Re: RAID-6 support in kernel?

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Wed, 5 Jun 2002 11:28:19 +0200

> RAID-1 over two RAID-5s should withstand any three failures, AFAICS.
>
> You could do RAID-5 over RAID-5. That should survive any 2 failures and
> still be reasonably efficient.

Sure, but still: Is there a good reason why RAID-6 shouldn't be implemented
in linux?

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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester


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