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SubjectRe: RAID-6 support in kernel?
Hi!

> > > It'll waste 9 drives, giving me a total capacity of 7n instead of 14n.
> > > And, by definition, RAID-6 _can_ withstand _any_ two-drive failure.
> >
> > This is certainly not true.
> >
> > Combining N RAID-5 into a stripe wastes on N disks.
> >
> > If you combine two it wastes 2 disks, etc.
> >
> > That is, for each RAID-5 you waste a single disk worth of storage for
> > partiy. I don't know what equation you're using where you get 9 drives
> > from.
>
> He was thinking "mirror", not "stripe". Mirror of 2 RAID-5 arrays (would
> be probably called RAID-15 (when there is a RAID-10 for mirrored stripe
> arrays)), can withstand any two disks failing anytime. Even more for

RAID-1 over two RAID-5s should withstand any three failures, AFAICS.

You could do RAID-5 over RAID-5. That should survive any 2 failures and
still be reasonably efficient.
Pavel
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