On Tuesday April 11, maurice@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Good day. > > I am looking for some information, and hope the readers of this list > might be able to point me in the right direction: > > Here is the scenario: > In RAID5 ( or RAID6) when a file is written, some parity data is > created, (by some form of XOR process, I assume), then that parity data > is written to disk. > > I am looking to find the algorithm that is used to create that parity > data and to decides where to place it on the disks. > > Any help on this is deeply appreciated. > wikipedia has some useful information, and definitely has a link to a paper that described raid6 on linux. 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
