On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: <SNIP> > >> It was my understanding when researching RAID6 last week that the two >> parity calculations are actually different. Only one of them is simple >> parity. The the other is part of an advanced math degree. ;-) >> (According to Wikipedia, not a definitive source for sure...) > > Â Â Â ÂWell, that's encouraging, if true. ÂIt doesn't explain how big > chunks of data in almost every large file got corrupted, though. > > If it's real and not some strange bug then it certainly doesn't. Neil had some very good responses. Also, what does smartctl -a /dev/sdX say for each drive? Any indication at all of _any_ drive having problems? - Mark -- 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
