Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: > Ok--I got moved in to my new place and am back and running on the 'net. > I sat down for a few hours and attempted to write a script to try all > possible combinations of drives...but I have to admit that I'm lost. > > I have 8 drives in the array--and I can output every possible > combination of those. But what the heck would be the logic to output > all combinations of the 8 drives using only 6 at a time? My head hurts. You want only 5 at a time, don't you? 8 drives - 1 spare - 2 parity = 5 Anyway, a very quick-n-dirty way to get what you want is to: 1. calculate all permutations 2. strip away the last items of each permutation 3. get rid of duplicate lines $ wget http://hayne.net/MacDev/Perl/permutations $ perl permutations a b c d e f g h | cut -d' ' -f-5 | sort -u The Perl script above is from: http://hayne.net/MacDev/Perl/ -Corey - 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
