Hello Peter ,
On 11 Nov 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm playing around with RAID-6 algorithms lately. With RAID-6 I mean
> a setup which needs N+2 disks for N disks worth of storage and can
> handle any two disks failing -- this seems to be the contemporary
> definition of RAID-6 (the originally proposed "two-dimensional parity"
> which required N+2*sqrt(N) drives never took off for obvious reasons.)
Was there a discussion of the 'two-dimensional parity' on the
list ? I don't remember any (of course) . But what other than
98+2+10 , What was the main difficulty ? I don't (personally)
see any difficulty (other than managability/power/space) to the
ammount of disks required . Tia , JimL
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