On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 07:28:37PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: [...] > It's always perilous to follow a Ph.D., so I guess I'm feeling suicidal > today. ;) > > I'm not attempting to marginalize Andrea's work here, but I can't help > but ponder what the real value of triple parity RAID is, or quad, or > beyond. Some time ago parity RAID's primary mission ceased to be Hi Stan, my opinio is that you have to think in terms of storage devices which are not always available. Those are not simply directly connected HDDs, it could be more exotic. The example I consider is a p2p network storage, where the nodes are very little reliable. I guess that could be more. bye, -- piergiorgio -- 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
