Messages in this thread | | | From | Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <> | Subject | Re: SV: RAID-6 support in kernel? | Date | Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:59:55 +0200 |
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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
-- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, Datavaktmester
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