On Wednesday January 12, gordon@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Until now I haven't really paid too much attention to the RAID-6 stuff, > but I have an application which needs to be as resilient to disk failures > as possible. > > So other than what's at: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/ > > and the archives of this list (which I'm re-reading now), can anyone give > me a quick heads-up about it? > > Specifically I'm still buried in the dark days of 2.4.27/28 - are there > recent patches against 2.4? There is no current support for raid6 in any 2.4 kernel and I am not aware of anyone planning such support. Assume it is 2.6 only. > > If RAID-6 isn't viable for me right now, what I'm planning is as follows: > > Put 8 x 250GB SATA drives in the system, and arrange them in 4 pairs of > RAID-1 units. > > Assemble the 4 RAID-1 units into a RAID-5. Sounds reasonable. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
