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SubjectRe: SV: RAID-6 support in kernel?
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> Of course, for a 4 drive setup there's no reason to use RAID 6 at all (RAID
> 10 will withstand any two drive failure if you only use 4 drives), but
> that's the reasoning. I think the best way to deal with the read-modify
> write problem for RAID 6 is to use a small chunk size and deal with NxN
> chunks as a unit. But YMMV.

RAID10 will _not_ withstand any two-drive fail in a 4-drive scenario. If D1
and D3 fail, you're fscked

D1 D2
D3 D4

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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester

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They stop working when you open Windows.
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