On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 04:15:28PM +0100, John Hendrikx wrote: > I was wondering if there is support for a raid level where one can > choose the redundancy level. Raid 5 allows for one redundant drive, > Raid 6 for two, but there's no raid level that would support arbitrary > redundancy (even to the point of allowing one to add extra redundancy > later on, by simply putting spare drives to immediate use). > > I'm just a casual Software Raid user, and have been using Raid 6 for a > small 8 TB array for a few years now and I realize that there's quite > some CPU overhead involved for such redundancy, but for my purposes > speed is not a relevant concern (10 MB/sec is enough). Actually you can choose the number of copies in raid10, via the -n option. Best regards keld -- 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
