2009/8/23 Drew <drew.kay@xxxxxxxxx>: >> "... It can also be used when creating a RAID1 or RAID10 if you want >> to avoid the initial resync ..." >> >> I'm wondering why namely those levels are chosen and not RAID5/6 for e. g.? >> >> I think it's also safe to use with RAID5/6, isn't it? > > RAID1/10 don't have parity calculations whereas RAID5/6 do. Well, and what does it change? I mean if we write some data to that "assume clean" RAID5/6 the parity will be updated anyway. -- End of message. Next message? -- 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