On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 03:29:49PM +0100, Gionatan Danti wrote: The wikipedia description is what you get for new arrays with newer kernels, while the suse documentation is what you will get with older kernels. The wikipedia layout was made because there are better chances of recovery, Chances went from 1/3 to 2/3 with eg 4 drives, when 2 drives were failing. I would say that the Suse description is just not updated. Best regards Keld
Interesting. Two question: 1) from which kernel the layout is the one depicted by Wikipedia? 2) it is possible, using mdadm, check what "far" layout is in use? Thanks. -- Danti Gionatan Supporto Tecnico Assyoma S.r.l. - www.assyoma.it email: g.danti@xxxxxxxxxx - info@xxxxxxxxxx GPG public key ID: FF5F32A8 -- 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
