In 2.6.39.1, any writes to a raid-6 array cause all disks to be accessed. Though I don't understand the math behind raid-6, I have tested on LSI cards that it is possible to only access 3 disks. -- 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