Thank you all for the information, I'll get some more workload details. Thanks again! -nikhil. On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 6:10 AM, Stan Hoeppner <stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/21/2017 10:55 PM, Nikhil Kshirsagar wrote: >> >> Hello linux-raid, >> >> A customer has some questions about raid6 best practices. They are >> using a 84-disk MD1280 Expansion Shelf (seagate disks). They want to >> use mdadm to setup a s/w raid, using raid6. >> >> The questions are >> >> a) recommended number of disks included in RAID array set? >> b) Is it possible to include all 84 disks in one array and leave 2 of >> them as host spare? >> c) Is there a raid6 best practices document to refer to ? >> >> Can anyone point me to me any internal docs or articles to construct a >> reply to the customer? >> >> Thanks, >> Nikhil. > > > The single most important question: > > What is the workload? > > Start the discussion there, or everything else is meaningless. > > -- > Stan -- 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
