On Feb 1, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Phil Turmel <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/01/2013 01:49 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> >> Does this option mean, in effect, the 7th disk is just a parity disk? So, sorta like a hybrid RAID 5/RAID4. > > Yes, with just the Q left on the 7th disk. The remainder of the array > is the normal raid5 stripe. See the manpage for the layout > "left-symmetric-6". Just when I thought I had some lanterns illuminating most of the rabbit hole… Chris Murphy-- 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
