On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 04:22:55PM +0100, Gionatan Danti wrote: > > >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? I cannot answer that. Neil Brown should know. Best regards Keld -- 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
