Can anyone explain how RAID6 works? I understand RAID5, XOR, but I don't see how that could be extended to allow any 2 disks to fail. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 1:50 AM To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: RAID-6 now in 2.6.1-mm Hi all, For those who haven't seen yet, RAID-6 has been integrated into the 2.6.1-mm kernels. Please test it out and let me know how it works out. The mdadm patch is still at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/ -hpa - 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
