Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:52:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:52:27 -0400 Received: from daimi.au.dk ([130.225.16.1]:4283 "EHLO daimi.au.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 10:52:25 -0400 Message-ID: <3CFB82A0.EB2062AE@daimi.au.dk> Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:52:16 +0200 From: Kasper Dupont Organization: daimi.au.dk X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-31smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vojtech Pavlik CC: Derek Vadala , Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Tedd Hansen , Christian Vik , Lars Christian Nygaard Subject: Re: RAID-6 support in kernel? In-Reply-To:

<20020603113128.C13204@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > 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. It can actually withstand any *three* disks failing anytime. > Even more for > certain combinations. But it is terribly inefficient. -- Kasper Dupont -- der bruger for meget tid p? usenet. For sending spam use mailto:razor-report@daimi.au.dk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/