Andre Noll wrote: > >> So back to my original question: Why does the kernel require 4 disks >> for a raid6 instead of allowing 3? > > Dunno. Maybe Dan, Neil or HPA can tell the reason for imposing this > limitation. > It's very simple: it avoids an ugly corner case in the RAID-6 computation code. Rather than inserting special code (and verifying it, etc.) to deal with the 3-disk RAID-6 degenerate case, it was easier to just not permit it. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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
