Followup to: <1132173592.23464.459.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> By author: Dan Stromberg <strombrg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid > > > My understanding is that RAID 5 -always- stripes parity. If it didn't, > I believe it would be RAID 4. > > You may find http://linux.cudeso.be/raid.php of interest. > > I don't think RAID level 6 was in the original RAID paper, so vendors > may have decided on their own that it should mean what they're > selling. :) > RAID-6 wasn't in the original RAID paper, but the term RAID-6 with the P+Q parity defintion is by far the dominant use of the term, and I believe it is/was recognized by the RAID Advisory Board, which is as close as you can get to an official statement. The RAB seems to have gotten defunct, with a standard squatter page on their previous web address. -hpa - 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
