Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Actually the definition I read was that raid6 is like raid5 but > allowing for 2 or more disks to fail without loss. So a 15 disks raid > with 10 data blocks and 5 parity blocks per stripe would also be raid6. > 2 or more *arbitrary* disks. You can't, say, have two RAID-5s and call the combination a RAID-6, because they're not all there. -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
