On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:18:57PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Erik Mouw wrote: > >No, the other way around: RAID1 is a special case of RAID5. > > > No it isn't. If you have N drives in RAID1 you have N independent copies > of the data and no parity, there's just no corresponding thing in RAID5, > which has one copy of the data, plus parity. There is no special case, > it just doesn't work that way. Set N>2 and report back. Just write out the formulas and it becomes obvious. > Sorry, I couldn't find a diplomatic way to say you're completely wrong. I guess we have to agree to disagree. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - 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
