On 01/09/2012 09:50 AM, Peter Grandi wrote: >>>> I got a SMART error email yesterday from my home server with a 4 >>>> x 1Tb RAID6. [ ... ] > >>>> That's an (euphemism alert) imaginative setup. Why not a 4 >>>> drive RAID10? In general there are vanishingly few cases in >>>> which RAID6 makes sense, and in the 4 drive case a RAID10 >>>> makes even more sense than usual. Especially with the really >>>> cool setup options that MD RAID10 offers. > >> In this case, the raid6 can suffer the loss of any two drives >> and continue operating. Raid10 cannot, unless you give up >> more space for triple redundancy. > > When I see arguments like this I am sometimes (euphemism alert) > enthused by their (euphemism alert) profundity. A defense of a > 4-drive RAID6 is a particularly compelling example, and this > type of (euphemism alert) astute observation even more so. << plonk >> -- 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
