On 17/05/2012 14:18, David Brown wrote: [...]
Theoretically, a 3-disk RAID6 is like a 2-disk RAID5 or a 1-disk RAID1 -
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I can't think of any good reason for it /not/ to support 3-disk RAID6, as there is nothing in the algorithms to hinder it.
I've a vague recollection of Peter Anvin saying the implementation is optimised in such a way that it won't work.
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