> On the other hand, a cleverly distributed RAID10 can guard against a > controller failure in a 2-controller setup ; a RAID6 of more than 4 > disks can't unless you use a maximum of 2 disks per controller. Well, that is the case with all of the IDE arrays I've ever managed. > How about not adding a RAID6 driver, but extending the RAID5 driver some > to make the number of parity stripes a variable? I don't know how much > extension that would require - perhaps it would bog down the RAID5 > driver too much in single stripe use, so we still might be better off > with a separate RAID6(+) driver. But it looks like most of the code > could simply be copied. Hmmm, I think you've convinced me that, should we get RAID6(+) support, I'd give it a good shot. This sounds like something my boss would be all about... Ross Vandegrift ross@willow.seitz.com - 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 http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
