Re: RAID-6 now in 2.6.1-mm

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Guy wrote:
> 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.
> 

If you want the gory details, I've written a short paper on it:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/raid6.pdf

	-hpa

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