> Of course, for a 4 drive setup there's no reason to use RAID 6 at all (RAID > 10 will withstand any two drive failure if you only use 4 drives), but > that's the reasoning. I think the best way to deal with the read-modify > write problem for RAID 6 is to use a small chunk size and deal with NxN > chunks as a unit. But YMMV. RAID10 will _not_ withstand any two-drive fail in a 4-drive scenario. If D1 and D3 fail, you're fscked D1 D2 D3 D4 -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows. - 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
